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Assembly Bill A8713

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to banned members of social referral services

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2025-A8713 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Consumer Affairs And Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §394-c, Gen Bus L

2025-A8713 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Allows social referral services to retain records of banned members for up to six years from expiration of the purchase contract or services rendered; requires online dating services to disclose certain information to New York members who previously interacted with banned members subject to a fraud ban.

2025-A8713 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8713
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 2, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  P. CARROLL  -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection
 
 AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to banned  members
   of social referral services
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision  1,  subdivision  6,  and  the
 opening paragraph of paragraph (a) of subdivision 10 of section 394-c of
 the  general business law, as amended by chapter 13 of the laws of 2025,
 are amended to read as follows:
   (d) "banned member" shall mean the member whose account or profile  is
 the  subject  of  a fraud ban OR HAS BEEN TERMINATED BY AN ONLINE DATING
 SERVICE FOR A VIOLATION OF THE TERMS OF SERVICE.
   6. Every contract for social referral service shall  provide  that  at
 the expiration of the contract or at the expiration of services rendered
 by  the  seller,  for  any  reason,  all  information  and material of a
 personal or private nature acquired from a purchaser directly  or  indi-
 rectly including but not limited to answers to tests and questionnaires,
 photographs  or background information shall be promptly returned by the
 seller to the purchaser by certified mail or destroyed and deleted  from
 any  electronic  storage  devices,  with certification of destruction or
 deletion promptly provided to the purchaser  UPON  REQUEST,  unless  the
 retention  of  such information and material is required (a) by federal,
 state, or local laws, rules or regulations or (b) to comply with a judi-
 cial court order. NOTWITHSTANDING THE PROVISIONS  OF  THIS  SUBDIVISION,
 THE SOCIAL REFERRAL SERVICE MAY RETAIN SUCH INFORMATION AND MATERIAL FOR
 A  PERIOD  OF  SIX  YEARS  FROM THE EXPIRATION OF THE CONTRACT OR AT THE
 EXPIRATION OF SERVICES RENDERED WHERE THE PURCHASER IS A  BANNED  MEMBER
 OR  THE PURCHASER IS IN POSSESSION OF INFORMATION OR MATERIAL CONTAINING
 EVIDENCE OF THE BANNED MEMBER'S VIOLATION OF THE  TERMS  OF  SERVICE  OR
 FRAUD  BAN.  SUCH  INFORMATION AND MATERIAL SHALL BE RETAINED SOLELY FOR
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13219-01-5

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