republic-os/legislation/us/states/ny/2023-2024/s-5941.md

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Bill	Requires businesses to notify consumers of an upcoming automatic renewal or continuous service charge forty-five days prior to such charge	Requires businesses to notify consumers of an upcoming automatic renewal or continuous service charge to the consumer's account forty-five days prior to such charge; requires businesses to include instructions on how to cancel such renewal or charge in the notice to the consumer.	us/states/ny	New York Legislature	2023-2024	S 5941	New York S 5941 (2023-2024)	bill		enacted	Brian Kavanagh	3	17	3	2023-03-23	2023-12-13	openstates	ocd-bill/8fd4550c-fe3e-413a-a289-57c3996cf0ec	http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S5941	4c99682a821235f14755233fa4c7e34329ff51f9b49cec09b09cf88d38ab14c4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ny

New York S 5941 (2023-2024) — Requires businesses to notify consumers of an upcoming automatic renewal or continuous service charge forty-five days prior to such charge

Requires businesses to notify consumers of an upcoming automatic renewal or continuous service charge to the consumer's account forty-five days prior to such charge; requires businesses to include instructions on how to cancel such renewal or charge in the notice to the consumer.

Version chain

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

1. S5941 (committee substitute) — source
2. S5941A (committee substitute) — source
3. S5941B (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Floor Vote - Version: B — 58–0 (pass) · upper
• Assembly Vote — 148–0 (pass) · lower
• Consumer Protection Vote - Version: B — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brian Kavanagh — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-03-23 REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION referral-committee
• 2023-03-31 AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CONSUMER PROTECTION amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-03-31 PRINT NUMBER 5941A amendment-passage
• 2023-05-12 AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO CONSUMER PROTECTION amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-05-12 PRINT NUMBER 5941B amendment-passage
• 2023-05-24 1ST REPORT CAL.1356
• 2023-05-30 2ND REPORT CAL.
• 2023-05-31 ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
• 2023-06-01 PASSED SENATE passage
• 2023-06-01 DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
• 2023-06-01 REFERRED TO CONSUMER AFFAIRS AND PROTECTION referral-committee
• 2023-06-06 SUBSTITUTED FOR A3245D
• 2023-06-06 ORDERED TO THIRD READING CAL.37
• 2023-06-06 PASSED ASSEMBLY passage
• 2023-06-06 RETURNED TO SENATE
• 2023-12-12 DELIVERED TO GOVERNOR executive-receipt
• 2023-12-13 SIGNED CHAP.728 executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8fd4550c-fe3e-413a-a289-57c3996cf0ec. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).