New York S 7727: Requires certain non-licensed professionals to disclose information regarding risks

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S07727 Summary:

BILL NOS07727A

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORSKOUFIS

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §391-y, Gen Bus L

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Requires self-help practitioners to disclose information to clients regarding risks and to produce a risk management plan.

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BILL NOS07727A

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05/01/2025REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION

05/28/20251ST REPORT CAL.1416

05/29/20252ND REPORT CAL.

06/04/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

06/09/2025PASSED SENATE

06/09/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

06/09/2025referred to consumer affairs and protection

01/07/2026died in assembly

01/07/2026returned to senate

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION

05/05/2026AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CONSUMER PROTECTION

05/05/2026PRINT NUMBER 7727A

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 7727--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 May 1, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection --
 recommitted to the Committee on Consumer Protection in accordance with
 Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
 reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring
 certain non-licensed professionals to disclose information regarding
 risks

 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 section
 2 391-y to read as follows:
 3 § 391-y. Self-help practitioner disclosure requirements. 1. Defi-
 4 nitions:
 5 (a) "Self-help practitioner" means any individual, their agent or
 6 employee, or company that is publicly holding themself out as a practi-
 7 tioner or mentor of self-improvement methods in advertising or marketing
 8 or utilizing similar terminologies to reach equivalent implications, and
 9 is offering financial, spiritual or educational guidance for the purpose
 10 of improving personal awareness, identifying and developing personal
 11 talent and potential, enhancing the quality of life of a person and/or
 12 contributing to the realization of personal aspirations in exchange for
 13 payment. A "self-help practitioner" shall not include any individual
 14 licensed pursuant to the provisions of title eight of the education law
 15 and such licensed individuals shall be exempt from any requirements of
 16 this article.
 17 (b) "Large print format" shall mean a printed font size of sixteen
 18 points or larger.
 19 (c) "Sudation practice" shall mean any ceremony, ritual, or session in
 20 which an individual or group of individuals are subjected to long peri-
 21 ods of exposure to intense heat generated by any means, including but

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00027-05-6

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 1 not limited to heated rocks, steam, dry heat, for the purposes of phys-
 2 ical wellness, purification, prayer, or any other ritual or therapeutic
 3 sweating.
 4 (d) "Trust exercise" shall mean any activity developed for the purpose
 5 of group therapy or team building that involves putting an individual in
 6 a vulnerable position requiring such individual to depend on other group
 7 members for physical support.
 8 (e) "Strength exercise" shall mean physical acts using any part of an
 9 individual's body to break, bend, or otherwise destroy another object,
 10 including but not limited to breaking bricks, blocks, boards, or bending
 11 steel.
 12 (f) "Coercive control techniques" shall mean activities that seek to
 13 change behaviors either on a group or individual level, including but
 14 not limited to neuro-linguistic programming, public shaming, and sharing
 15 of personal trauma in a public setting or large group.
 16 (g) "Qualifying emergency" shall mean:
 17 (i) a federal, state or local state of emergency has been declared.
 18 (ii) severe weather or any other similar circumstance exists that may
 19 result in an individual being placed in imminent da