STATE OF NEW YORK
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7266
IN SENATE
January 15, 2020
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Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to prohibiting
fees or surcharges with accepted forms of payment; and to repeal
section 518 of such law relating thereto
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
2 392-k to read as follows:
3 § 392-k. Accepted form of payment; prohibited practices. 1. For the
4 purposes of this section, "differential pricing" shall mean the practice
5 of charging customers different prices for the same product.
6 2. No person, firm, partnership, association or corporation who is
7 engaged in a sales transaction may employ differential pricing based on
8 a consumer's form of payment which the seller accepts as payment for
9 goods or services including, but not limited to, imposing a fee or
10 surcharge for using or processing an accepted form of payment.
11 3. A knowing violation of this section shall be punishable by a fine
12 not to exceed one thousand dollars.
13 § 2. Section 518 of the general business law is REPEALED.
14 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
15 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD13828-02-9
