---
type: "Bill"
title: "Enacts the \"fostering affordability and integrity through reasonable (FAIR) business practices act\""
description: "Enacts the \"fostering affordability and integrity through reasonable (FAIR) business practices act\", to expand the attorney general's ability to protect New Yorkers from unfair, deceptive and abusive business practices."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
legislature: "New York Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "S 8416"
citation: "New York S 8416 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Leroy Comrie"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 12
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-06-09"
last_action: "2025-12-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8c73db17-a897-49a2-a362-02c365837882"
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/S8416"
source_hash: "9d701500b61dec357e431964c500f5e1fb13136efd06fd2797bfddb07669d43d"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ny"]
---

# New York S 8416 (2025-2026) — Enacts the "fostering affordability and integrity through reasonable (FAIR) business practices act"

Enacts the "fostering affordability and integrity through reasonable (FAIR) business practices act", to expand the attorney general's ability to protect New Yorkers from unfair, deceptive and abusive business practices.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **S8416** (committee substitute) — [source](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S8416&term=2025&Text=Y)

## Votes

- Rules Vote — **13–7** (pass) · upper
- Assembly Vote — **91–50** (pass) · lower
- Floor Vote — **37–22** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Leroy Comrie — primary (person)
- Andrew Gounardes — cosponsor (person)
- Brad Hoylman-Sigal — cosponsor (person)
- Brian Kavanagh — cosponsor (person)
- Cordell Cleare — cosponsor (person)
- Gustavo Rivera — cosponsor (person)
- Jamaal Bailey — cosponsor (person)
- James Skoufis — cosponsor (person)
- John Liu — cosponsor (person)
- Julia Salazar — cosponsor (person)
- Lea Webb — cosponsor (person)
- Liz Krueger — cosponsor (person)
- Luis R. Sepúlveda — cosponsor (person)
- Michelle Hinchey — cosponsor (person)
- Nathalia Fernandez — cosponsor (person)
- Patricia Fahy — cosponsor (person)
- Pete Harckham — cosponsor (person)
- Rachel May — cosponsor (person)
- Robert Jackson — cosponsor (person)
- Roxanne J. Persaud — cosponsor (person)
- Samra Brouk — cosponsor (person)
- Shelley Mayer — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-06-09** REFERRED TO RULES `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-13** ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.2034
- **2025-06-13** PASSED SENATE `passage`
- **2025-06-13** DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
- **2025-06-13** REFERRED TO CODES `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-16** SUBSTITUTED FOR A8427A
- **2025-06-16** ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.832
- **2025-06-17** PASSED ASSEMBLY `passage`
- **2025-06-17** RETURNED TO SENATE
- **2025-12-08** DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2025-12-19** SIGNED CHAP.708 `executive-signature`
- **2025-12-19** APPROVAL MEMO.83

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8c73db17-a897-49a2-a362-02c365837882`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).