New York S 10428: Relates to fairness in youth sports

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S10428 Summary:

BILL NOS10428 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORMAY

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add Art 41-A §§1050 - 1057, Gen Bus L

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Requires youth sports organizations to disclose all total annual costs for participation; deems certain youth sports organization contract provisions invalid; protects data privacy of youth sports organization participants; provides for liability, enforcement, and exemptions.

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BILL NOS10428 

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05/15/2026REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 10428

 IN SENATE

 May 15, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. MAY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection

 AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to fairness in
 youth sports

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new article
 2 41-A to read as follows:
 3 ARTICLE 41-A
 4 YOUTH SPORTS
 5 Section 1050. Definitions.
 6 1051. Disclosure of total annual costs.
 7 1052. Youth sports contracts.
 8 1053. Stay-to-play prohibited.
 9 1054. Data privacy.
 10 1055. Investor liability.
 11 1056. Enforcement.
 12 1057. Exemptions.
 13 § 1050. Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following
 14 terms shall have the following meanings:
 15 1. "Youth sports organization" means any entity that organizes,
 16 manages, governs, hosts or runs youth sports events, and where total
 17 annual costs for participation in such youth sports organization exceed
 18 seven hundred fifty dollars for a single sports season.
 19 2. "Youth sports event" means any organized athletic event, game or
 20 competition in which the majority of participants are under the age of
 21 eighteen.
 22 3. "Total annual costs" means the total mandatory costs for partic-
 23 ipation in a youth sports organization over the course of an individual
 24 sports season, regardless of when payments for such costs are due,
 25 including but not limited to, registration fees, equipment costs, and
 26 travel costs.
 27 4. "Player platform" means any digital system used by a youth sports
 28 organization for registration, tracking, recruiting, or data collection.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD15925-01-6

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 1 5. "Controlling investor" means a person or other entity having ten
 2 percent ownership or more of, or unilateral decision-making authority
 3 over, a youth sports organization.
 4 6. "Stay-to-play arrangement" means conditioning participation in a
 5 youth sports organization on using a designated vendor, including but
 6 not limited to, travel or lodging vendors.
 7 7. "Sports season" means the specific period within a one-year time-
 8 frame within which a youth sports organization holds youth sports
 9 events, including any preseason, regular season and postseason youth
 10 sports events and practices.
 11 8. "Participant" means any person participating in a youth sports
 12 organization and their parents and/or guardians.
 13 9. "Personal data" means any data that identifies or could reasonably
 14 be linked, directly or indirectly, with a specific natural person or
 15 household, including but not limited to, information collected by a
 16 youth sports organization with registration documents, biometrics,
 17 performance tracking, financial information, or location.
 18 § 1051. Disclosure of total annual costs. 1. Each youth sports organ-
 19 ization shall provide any participant with a full itemized list in writ-
 20 ing of such total annual costs before the start of such sports season.
 21 No fees or other additional charges shall be imposed on any participant
 22 that was not included in such itemized list.
 23 2. Any provision of a contract for participation in a youth sports
 24 organization authorizing undisclosed fees or other charges in violation
 25 of subdivision one of this section shall be void.
 26 3. Whe