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NY S00338
Bill
Status
1/4/2023
Primary Sponsor
Robert Jackson
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AI Summary
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Requires businesses that offer senior citizen, student, or veteran discounts on admission or membership to also offer discounts to disabled individuals at the lowest discount price available.
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Disabled individuals' discounted admission or membership must include free admission for an accompanying caregiver, with websites and box offices required to provide an option to identify the caregiver.
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Businesses must conspicuously advertise the availability and price of senior citizen, student, veteran, and disabled individual discounts at box offices, websites, and on accessibility pages.
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Businesses with pay-as-you-wish policies must also conspicuously advertise these policies at box offices, websites, and accessibility pages.
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Defines "disabled individual" as a person with a disability as defined in New York Executive Law Section 292(21), and "caregiver" as the person who normally provides daily care or supervision; 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
1/3/2024