Assembly Bill A843

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to violations of provisions prohibiting third-party restaurant reservation services from arranging unauthorized restaurant reservations with food service establishments

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2025-A843 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S777
Current Committee:
Assembly Consumer Affairs And Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §391-w, Gen Bus L (as proposed in S.9365-A & A.10215-A)

2025-A843 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Clarifies violations of provisions prohibiting third-party restaurant reservation services from arranging unauthorized restaurant reservations with food service establishments.

2025-A843 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    843
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. BORES -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Consumer Affairs and Protection
 
 AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to  violations  of
   provisions  prohibiting  third-party  restaurant  reservation services
   from arranging unauthorized restaurant reservations with food  service
   establishments
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 391-w of the general business law,
 as added by a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the general  business
 law  relating to prohibiting third-party restaurant reservation services
 from arranging unauthorized restaurant reservations  with  food  service
 establishments,  as  proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 9365-A and
 A.  10215-A, is amended to read as follows:
   3. Any person who violates, or causes another  person  to  violate,  a
 provision  of  this  section [or any rule promulgated pursuant thereto],
 shall be subject to a civil penalty that shall not exceed  one  thousand
 dollars  for each violation. Violations by third-party restaurant reser-
 vation services under this section shall accrue on  a  daily  basis  for
 each day and for each food service establishment with respect to which a
 violation  of  this  section  [or  any rule promulgated pursuant to this
 section] was committed. [A proceeding to recover any  civil  penalty  or
 restitution  authorized  pursuant  to this section may be brought within
 any agency of the state designated to conduct such proceedings.]
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the  same  date  and  in  the  same
 manner  as  a  chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the general business
 law relating to prohibiting third-party restaurant reservation  services
 from  arranging  unauthorized  restaurant reservations with food service
 establishments, as proposed in legislative bills numbers S.  9365-A  and
 A.  10215-A, takes effect.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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