Fabio
78 lines
3.6 KiB
Markdown
78 lines
3.6 KiB
Markdown
---
|
||
type: "Bill"
|
||
title: "Requires businesses to notify consumers of an upcoming automatic renewal or continuous service charge forty-five days prior to such charge"
|
||
description: "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."
|
||
jurisdiction: "us/states/ny"
|
||
legislature: "New York Legislature"
|
||
session: "2023-2024"
|
||
identifier: "S 5941"
|
||
citation: "New York S 5941 (2023-2024)"
|
||
classification: ["bill"]
|
||
subjects: []
|
||
status: "enacted"
|
||
primary_sponsors: ["Brian Kavanagh"]
|
||
version_count: 3
|
||
action_count: 17
|
||
vote_count: 3
|
||
first_action: "2023-03-23"
|
||
last_action: "2023-12-13"
|
||
source: "openstates"
|
||
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8fd4550c-fe3e-413a-a289-57c3996cf0ec"
|
||
source_url: "http://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S5941"
|
||
source_hash: "4c99682a821235f14755233fa4c7e34329ff51f9b49cec09b09cf88d38ab14c4"
|
||
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 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](http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=printbill&bn=S5941&term=2023&Text=Y)
|
||
2. **S5941A** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2023/S5941A)
|
||
3. **S5941B** (committee substitute) — [source](http://legislation.nysenate.gov/pdf/bills/2023/S5941B)
|
||
|
||
## 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8fd4550c-fe3e-413a-a289-57c3996cf0ec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official New York legislature records).
|
||
|