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Assembly Bill A7301

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires sexual and domestic violence awareness posters in certain businesses

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2025-A7301 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7547
Current Committee:
Senate Consumer Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add §408-c, Gen Bus L

2025-A7301 - Summary

Requires sexual and domestic violence awareness posters in cosmetology establishments.

2025-A7301 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7301
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 25, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. TAPIA -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Economic Development
 
 AN ACT to amend the general  business  law,  in  relation  to  requiring
   appearance  enhancement  businesses  to display a poster about gender-
   based violence
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
 408-c to read as follows:
   § 408-C. GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE AWARENESS POSTER IN APPEARANCE ENHANCE-
 MENT  BUSINESSES. 1. THE OFFICE FOR THE PREVENTION OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE,
 IN CONSULTATION WITH THE DIVISION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE DEPARTMENT  OF
 STATE, SHALL CREATE A POSTER CONTAINING INFORMATION ON RECOGNIZING SIGNS
 OF  GENDER-BASED  VIOLENCE AND AVAILABLE RESOURCES IN THE STATE, INCLUD-
 ING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, TOLL-FREE HOTLINES  AND  VICTIM  SERVICES.  THE
 POSTER  SHALL  BE  MADE  AVAILABLE  IN THE TOP TEN NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGES
 SPOKEN IN THE STATE, AS DETERMINED BY THE MOST RECENT AMERICAN COMMUNITY
 SURVEY DATA.
   2. THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE SHALL PROVIDE SUCH  POSTERS  TO  APPEARANCE
 ENHANCEMENT  BUSINESSES  AT  NO COST. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL ISSUE MINIMUM
 CONTENT AND DESIGN STANDARDS FOR BUSINESSES THAT  ELECT  TO  CREATE  AND
 DISPLAY THEIR OWN POSTERS, SUBJECT TO APPROVAL BY THE DEPARTMENT.
   3.  EVERY  APPEARANCE  ENHANCEMENT  BUSINESS LICENSED PURSUANT TO THIS
 ARTICLE SHALL POST, IN A CONSPICUOUS LOCATION ACCESSIBLE TO ALL  CUSTOM-
 ERS,  A  POSTER PROVIDED OR APPROVED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION TWO OF THIS
 SECTION IN A LANGUAGE OF THE BUSINESS'S CHOICE.
   4. THE SECRETARY OF STATE MAY PROMULGATE RULES AND REGULATIONS  NECES-
 SARY  TO ENFORCE THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION, INCLUDING PENALTIES FOR
 NONCOMPLIANCE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11145-01-5

co-Sponsors

2025-A7301A - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7547
Current Committee:
Senate Consumer Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add §408-c, Gen Bus L

2025-A7301A - Summary

Requires sexual and domestic violence awareness posters in cosmetology establishments.

2025-A7301A - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  7301--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 25, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. TAPIA -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Economic Development -- 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
   appearance enhancement businesses to display a poster about sexual and
   domestic violence
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
 408-c to read as follows:
   § 408-C. SEXUAL AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS POSTER  IN  APPEARANCE
 ENHANCEMENT  BUSINESSES.  1.  THE  OFFICE FOR THE PREVENTION OF DOMESTIC
 VIOLENCE, IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE  DIVISION  OF  HUMAN  RIGHTS  AND  THE
 DEPARTMENT  OF  STATE,  SHALL  CREATE A POSTER CONTAINING INFORMATION ON
 RECOGNIZING  SIGNS  OF  SEXUAL  AND  DOMESTIC  VIOLENCE  AND   AVAILABLE
 RESOURCES  IN  THE  STATE,  INCLUDING,  BUT  NOT  LIMITED  TO, TOLL-FREE
 HOTLINES AND VICTIM SERVICES. THE POSTER SHALL BE MADE AVAILABLE IN  THE
 TOP  TEN NON-ENGLISH LANGUAGES SPOKEN IN THE STATE, AS DETERMINED BY THE
 MOST RECENT AMERICAN COMMUNITY SURVEY DATA.
   2. THE OFFICE FOR THE PREVENTION OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, IN  PARTNERSHIP
 WITH  THE  DEPARTMENT  OF STATE SHALL PROVIDE SUCH POSTERS TO APPEARANCE
 ENHANCEMENT BUSINESSES AT NO COST. THE DEPARTMENT  SHALL  ISSUE  MINIMUM
 CONTENT  AND  DESIGN  STANDARDS  FOR BUSINESSES THAT ELECT TO CREATE AND
 DISPLAY THEIR OWN POSTERS, SUBJECT TO APPROVAL BY THE DEPARTMENT.
   3. EVERY APPEARANCE ENHANCEMENT BUSINESS  LICENSED  PURSUANT  TO  THIS
 ARTICLE  SHALL POST, IN A CONSPICUOUS LOCATION ACCESSIBLE TO ALL CUSTOM-
 ERS, A POSTER PROVIDED OR APPROVED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION TWO  OF  THIS
 SECTION IN A LANGUAGE OF THE BUSINESS'S CHOICE.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.    Effective  immediately,  the  addition,  amendment
 and/or repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation
 of  this  act  on  its  effective  date  are  authorized  to be made and
 completed on or before such effective date.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

co-Sponsors

2025-A7301B (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7547
Current Committee:
Senate Consumer Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add §408-c, Gen Bus L

2025-A7301B (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires sexual and domestic violence awareness posters in cosmetology establishments.

2025-A7301B (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  7301--B
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 25, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. TAPIA, SHIMSKY -- read once and referred to the
   Committee  on  Economic  Development  --  committee  discharged,  bill
   amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
   tee -- again reported from said  committee  with  amendments,  ordered
   reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  general  business law, in relation to requiring
   appearance enhancement businesses to display a poster about sexual and
   domestic violence
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
 408-c to read as follows:
   §  408-C.  SEXUAL AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS POSTER IN APPEARANCE
 ENHANCEMENT BUSINESSES. 1. THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE, IN CONSULTATION WITH
 THE OFFICE FOR THE PREVENTION OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND THE  DIVISION  OF
 HUMAN  RIGHTS, SHALL CREATE A POSTER CONTAINING INFORMATION ON RECOGNIZ-
 ING SIGNS OF SEXUAL AND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND AVAILABLE RESOURCES IN THE
 STATE, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED  TO,  TOLL-FREE  HOTLINES  AND  VICTIM
 SERVICES.  THE POSTER SHALL BE MADE AVAILABLE IN THE TOP TEN NON-ENGLISH
 LANGUAGES SPOKEN IN THE STATE, AS DETERMINED BY THE MOST RECENT AMERICAN
 COMMUNITY SURVEY DATA.
   2. THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE, IN CONSULTATION WITH THE  OFFICE  FOR  THE
 PREVENTION  OF  DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, SHALL PROVIDE SUCH POSTERS TO APPEAR-
 ANCE ENHANCEMENT BUSINESSES AT NO COST. THE DEPARTMENT SHALL ISSUE MINI-
 MUM CONTENT AND DESIGN STANDARDS FOR BUSINESSES THAT ELECT TO CREATE AND
 DISPLAY THEIR OWN POSTERS, SUBJECT TO APPROVAL BY THE DEPARTMENT.
   3. EVERY APPEARANCE ENHANCEMENT BUSINESS  LICENSED  PURSUANT  TO  THIS
 ARTICLE  SHALL POST, IN A CONSPICUOUS LOCATION ACCESSIBLE TO ALL CUSTOM-
 ERS, A POSTER PROVIDED OR APPROVED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION TWO  OF  THIS
 SECTION IN A LANGUAGE OF THE BUSINESS'S CHOICE.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11145-04-5
 A. 7301--B                          2

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