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Assembly Bill A10128

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires hotels and motels to maintain a roster of guests, including their photo identifications, for five years and security footage for ninety days and restricts the use of hourly rates at hotels and motels

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2025-A10128 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Economic Development
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§204 & 205, add §209-h, Gen Bus L

2025-A10128 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires hotels and motels to maintain a roster of guests, including their photo identifications, for five years and security footage for ninety days; restricts the use of hourly rates at hotels and motels; increases penalties therefor.

2025-A10128 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10128
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 2, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Economic Development
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  general  business law, in relation to requiring
   hotels and motels to maintain a  roster  of  guests,  including  their
   photo  identifications, for five years and security footage for ninety
   days and restricting the use of hourly rates at hotels and motels

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Legislative intent. This Legislature hereby finds that the
 unavailability or nonexistence of a roster of photo IDs of people  occu-
 pying a hotel or motel and security footage of hotels and motels poses a
 threat  to  the  safety  and well-being of the citizens of this state in
 such life-threatening circumstances as a  fire,  explosion  or  accident
 occurring  at  such  facilities, or in circumstances involving suspected
 illegal activities, such as, but not limited to human  trafficking.  The
 purpose  of  this  act is to ensure that a roster of photo IDs of people
 occupying a hotel or motel and security footage  of  hotels  and  motels
 will  be  available  for the use of rescue workers, emergency personnel,
 law enforcement officials and firefighters during the course of an emer-
 gency, or in circumstances in which illegal activity is suspected,  such
 as but not limited to human trafficking, by requiring such facilities to
 maintain registers under penalty of law.
   This  Legislature also hereby finds that due to the activities associ-
 ated with human trafficking and other  illegal  activities,  hotels  and
 motels  that  offer  hourly rates are attractive venues because of their
 lower cost and fleeting nature. The purpose of this  act  is  to  ensure
 that  the  state is completely bereft of hotels and motels that serve as
 attractive venues for crimes, such as but not limited to human traffick-
 ing, by restricting hotels and motels hourly rate options and  providing
 certain  exemptions  with  conditions,  and  mandating  compliance  with
 prevention training.
   § 2. Section 204 of the general business law, as  amended  by  chapter
 737 of the laws of 1961, is amended to read as follows:
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14159-02-6

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