Assembly Bill A8638A

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to multi-service health clubs

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    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2025-A8638 - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Consumer Affairs And Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §623, Gen Bus L

2025-A8638 - Summary

Exempts multi-service health clubs from the provisions stating that no contract for services shall require payment by the person receiving service or the use of the facilities in a total amount of three thousand six hundred dollars per annum.

2025-A8638 - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8638
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 22, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. KIM -- read once and referred to the Committee on
   Consumer Affairs and Protection
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the general business law, in relation to multi-service
   health clubs
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 623 of the general business law,
 as amended by chapter 660 of the laws of 1990,  is  amended  and  a  new
 subdivision 6 is added to read as follows:
   1.  No  contract  for  services  shall  require  payment by the person
 receiving service or the use of the facilities  of  a  total  amount  in
 excess of three thousand six hundred dollars per annum, provided, howev-
 er,  that  this subdivision shall not apply to contracts relating solely
 to the use of tennis, platform tennis [or] AND racquet ball  facilities,
 AND MULTI-SERVICE HEALTH CLUBS.
   6.  FOR  THE  PURPOSES  OF THIS SECTION, THE TERM MULTI-SERVICE HEALTH
 CLUB  SHALL MEAN ANY NEW YORK BASED HEALTH CLUB OR GYM WHICH  OFFERS  OR
 OFFERS ACCESS TO THREE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING AMENITIES: DIGITAL PLAT-
 FORM   SERVICES  SUCH  AS  ON-DEMAND  CLASSES;  INDIVIDUALIZED  TRAINING
 PROGRAMMING;  FITNESS  INSTRUCTOR  TRAINING  AND/OR  CERTIFICATION;  SPA
 TREATMENTS,  CO-WORKING SPACE, CHILDCARE; RECURRING GROUP FITNESS CLASS-
 ES; ADULT AND/OR YOUTH SPORTS PROGRAMMING; LOCKER  ROOM  WITH  AMENITIES
 SUCH  AS  LAUNDRY  SERVICE,  STEAM ROOMS, AND OTHER TOILETRIES; SWIMMING
 POOL OR SWIMMING POOLS, OR ON-SITE FOOD AND BEVERAGE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10865-01-5

2025-A8638A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Consumer Affairs And Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §623, Gen Bus L

2025-A8638A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Exempts multi-service health clubs from the provisions stating that no contract for services shall require payment by the person receiving service or the use of the facilities in a total amount of three thousand six hundred dollars per annum.

2025-A8638A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  8638--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 22, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. KIM -- read once and referred to the Committee on
   Consumer Affairs and Protection -- committee discharged, bill amended,
   ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the general business law, in relation to multi-service
   health clubs

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 623 of the general business law,
 as amended by chapter 660 of the laws of 1990,  is  amended  and  a  new
 subdivision 6 is added to read as follows:
   1.  No  contract  for  services  shall  require  payment by the person
 receiving service or the use of the facilities  of  a  total  amount  in
 excess  of three thousand six hundred dollars per annum, AS CUMULATIVELY
 AND ANNUALLY ADJUSTED FOR INFLATION BASED UPON  THE  US  CONSUMER  PRICE
 INDEX,  provided,  however,  that  this  subdivision  shall not apply to
 contracts relating solely to the use of tennis, platform tennis [or] AND
 racquet ball facilities, AND MULTI-SERVICE HEALTH CLUBS.
   6. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION,  THE  TERM  MULTI-SERVICE  HEALTH
 CLUB    SHALL MEAN ANY NEW YORK BASED HEALTH CLUB OR GYM WHICH OFFERS OR
 OFFERS ACCESS TO THREE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING AMENITIES: DIGITAL PLAT-
 FORM  SERVICES  SUCH  AS  ON-DEMAND  CLASSES;  INDIVIDUALIZED   TRAINING
 PROGRAMMING;  FITNESS  INSTRUCTOR  TRAINING  AND/OR  CERTIFICATION;  SPA
 TREATMENTS, CO-WORKING SPACE, CHILDCARE; RECURRING GROUP FITNESS  CLASS-
 ES;  ADULT  AND/OR  YOUTH SPORTS PROGRAMMING; LOCKER ROOM WITH AMENITIES
 SUCH AS LAUNDRY SERVICE, STEAM ROOMS,  AND  OTHER  TOILETRIES;  SWIMMING
 POOL OR SWIMMING POOLS, OR ON-SITE FOOD AND BEVERAGE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10865-02-5

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