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A05902 Summary:

BILL NOA05902 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORBrown K

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COSPNSRMcDonough

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §396-rrr, Gen Bus L

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Prevents the price gouging of water at places of entertainment by requiring places of entertainment provide conscionably priced bottled or tap water at a price not to exceed one dollar per sixteen and nine tenths ounces.

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BILL NOA05902 

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02/24/2025referred to consumer affairs and protection

01/07/2026referred to consumer affairs and protection

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5902

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 24, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Consumer Affairs and Protection

 AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to preventing the
 price gouging of water at places of entertainment

 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
 2 396-rrr to read as follows:
 3 § 396-rrr. Price gouging; bottled water. 1. Definitions. For the
 4 purposes of this section, the following terms shall have the following
 5 meanings:
 6 (a) "Commissioner" shall mean the commissioner of agriculture and
 7 markets.
 8 (b) "Conscionably priced bottled or tap water" shall mean potable
 9 water in consumer sized packages or provided to the consumer in a
 10 consumer sized container provided at no cost to the consumer or which is
 11 for sale or offered for sale at a price of less than one dollar per
 12 sixteen and nine-tenths fluid ounces or five hundred milliliters of
 13 water.
 14 (c) "Place of entertainment" shall mean a theatre, dinner theatre,
 15 hall, coliseum, convention center, arena, auditorium, stadium, concert
 16 hall, amusement park, garden, outdoor space or other place of amusement.
 17 2. Any place of entertainment which sells or offers for sale any
 18 beverages shall also offer conscionably priced bottled or tap water,
 19 otherwise the price of all beverages sold or offered for sale by such
 20 place of entertainment shall be considered unconscionably excessive.
 21 3. Upon a determination by the commissioner that a place of enter-
 22 tainment is selling or offering for sale beverages at prices considered
 23 unconscionably excessive under subdivision two of this section, the
 24 commissioner shall, by written notice, provide any such place of enter-
 25 tainment an opportunity to demonstrate that it was offering conscionably

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD08037-02-5

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 1 priced bottled or tap water. Any place of entertainment, so notified,
 2 who does not submit a written reply within three business days of the
 3 receipt of such notice, and who does not within such time satisfy the
 4 commissioner that it was offering conscionably priced bottled or tap
 5 water shall be identified in the commissioner's determination as a
 6 person apparently in violation of subdivision two of this section.
 7 Following such notice to and opportunity for such place of entertainment
 8 to respond, the commissioner shall forward their determination, in writ-
 9 ing, together with all supporting evidence, to the attorney general.
 10 4. Where a determination and all supporting evidence have been
 11 forwarded from the commissioner, the attorney general may apply in the
 12 name of the people of the state of New York to the supreme court of the
 13 state of New York within the judicial district in which such violations
 14 are alleged to have occurred, on notice of five days, for an order
 15 enjoining or restraining commission or continuance of the alleged unlaw-
 16 ful acts. In any such proceeding, the court shall determine the total
 17 excessive charge for beverages sold and shall assess a civil penalty in
 18 the sum of the total excessive charge for beverages sold.
 19 5. The commissioner shall promulgate all rules and regulations to
 20 effect