Assembly Bill A3485

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Prohibits rental vehicle companies from imposing any fees, charges or penalties, other than the actual cost of a toll, on an authorized driver for such driver's use of a rental vehicle

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-A3485 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S363
Current Committee:
Assembly Consumer Affairs And Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §396-Z, Gen Bus L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S5543
2017-2018: S5910, S6910
2019-2020: A6233, S1843, S1974
2023-2024: A3796, S1533

2021-A3485 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits rental vehicle companies from imposing any fees, charges or penalties, other than the actual cost of a toll, on an authorized driver for such driver's use of a rental vehicle.

2021-A3485 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3485
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 27, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Consumer Affairs and Protection
 
 AN ACT to amend the general business law,  in  relation  to  prohibiting
   rental vehicle companies from imposing any fees, charges or penalties,
   other than the actual cost of a toll, on an authorized driver for such
   driver's use of a rental vehicle
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 396-Z of the general business  law  is  amended  by
 adding a new subdivision 13-b to read as follows:
   13-B.  A  RENTAL VEHICLE COMPANY SHALL NOT IMPOSE ANY FEES, CHARGES OR
 PENALTIES, OTHER THAN THE ACTUAL COST OF A TOLL, ON AN AUTHORIZED DRIVER
 FOR SUCH DRIVER'S USE OF A RENTAL  VEHICLE  THROUGH  A  TOLL  COLLECTION
 FACILITY  THAT UTILIZES AN ELECTRONIC TOLL COLLECTION SYSTEM, AS DEFINED
 IN SECTION TWENTY-NINE HUNDRED EIGHTY-FIVE  OF  THE  PUBLIC  AUTHORITIES
 LAW, OR A PHOTO-MONITORING SYSTEM FOR THE PAYMENT OF TOLLS.
   §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
 have become a law; provided that the amendments to section 396-Z of  the
 general  business  law made by section one of this act shall survive the
 expiration and reversion of such section as provided  in  section  4  of
 chapter 109 of the laws of 2018, as amended.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02839-01-1

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