Senate Bill S777

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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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Rules Committee

  • 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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2025-S777 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A843
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §391-w, Gen Bus L (as proposed in S.9365-A & A.10215-A)

2025-S777 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2025-S777 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S777 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    777
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 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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