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NY S01906
Bill
Status
1/16/2021
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 memberships to also offer discounted admission or memberships to disabled individuals at the lowest discount price offered to any other category.
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Includes free admission for a caregiver accompanying a disabled individual with a discounted admission or membership; websites and box offices must provide an option to identify the caregiver.
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Mandates businesses conspicuously advertise the availability and price of senior citizen, student, veteran, and disabled individual discounts at box offices, websites, and accessibility pages.
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Requires businesses operating pay-as-you-wish policies to conspicuously advertise such policies at box offices, websites, and accessibility pages.
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Defines "disabled individual" as a person with a disability under Executive Law Section 292(21); defines "caregiver" as a person providing daily care or supervision of a disabled individual.
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
1/5/2022