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NY S07097
Bill
Status
1/8/2020
Primary Sponsor
Robert Jackson
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AI Summary
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Requires businesses offering senior citizen, student, or veteran discounts on admission or membership to also offer discounts to disabled individuals at the lowest discount price available to any other category.
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Mandates free admission for caregivers accompanying disabled individuals who purchase discounted admission or membership, with online and box office options to identify the caregiver.
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Requires businesses to conspicuously advertise all senior citizen, student, veteran, and disabled individual discounts at box offices, websites, and accessibility pages.
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Requires businesses offering pay-as-you-wish pricing policies to conspicuously advertise such policies at box offices, websites, and accessibility pages.
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Defines "disabled individual" per New York Executive Law Section 292(21), "caregiver" as one providing daily care or supervision, and "pay-as-you-wish policy" as buyer-determined pricing; takes effect 90 days after enactment.
Legislative Description
Requires any person, firm, partnership, corporation, or association, or agent or employee thereof, which offers, in the regular course of business, an established senior citizen, student or veteran discount on the price of admission or membership thereto, to offer a discount on the price of admission or membership to disabled individuals.
Last Action
REFERRED TO AGING
1/8/2020