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                                   8940
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               July 16, 2025
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 Introduced  by M. of A. ROZIC -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Consumer Affairs and Protection
 
 AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to including  for-
   hire transportation services in the prohibition on price gouging
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1.  Subdivision 2 of section 396-r of the general business law
 is amended by adding two new paragraphs (f) and (g) to read as follows:
   (F) THIS PROHIBITION SHALL APPLY TO FOR-HIRE  TRANSPORTATION  SERVICES
 AFTER THE DECLARATION OF A STATE OF EMERGENCY BY THE GOVERNOR TIED TO AN
 ABNORMAL  DISRUPTION  OF  THE  MARKET  OR UPON NOTICE FROM THE GOVERNOR,
 ATTORNEY GENERAL OR THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF ANY MUNICIPALITY OF THE STATE
 THAT AN ABNORMAL DISRUPTION OF THE  MARKET  EXISTS;  PROVIDED,  HOWEVER,
 SUCH  NOTICE  FROM THE GOVERNOR, ATTORNEY GENERAL OR CHIEF EXECUTIVE MAY
 REQUEST THAT SUCH FOR-HIRE TRANSPORTATION SERVICE ADJUST ITS PRICING  IN
 A  MANNER  WHICH  INCENTIVIZES  INCREASED  TRANSPORTATION  OPTIONS  IN A
 SPECIFIC GEOGRAPHIC AREA.
   (G) FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE TERM  "FOR-HIRE  TRANSPORTA-
 TION SERVICES" SHALL MEAN THE SALE OF VEHICULAR GROUND TRANSPORTATION BY
 A  SELLER FOR A PRICE, THE ORIGIN, DESTINATION, OR BOTH BEING WITHIN NEW
 YORK STATE, WHETHER PROVIDED BY THE SELLER ITSELF OR PROVIDED  BY  THIRD
 PARTIES  EMPLOYING THE SELLER'S PLATFORM TO CONNECT PASSENGERS AND DRIV-
 ERS. FOR-HIRE TRANSPORTATION SERVICES INCLUDE, BUT ARE NOT  LIMITED  TO,
 THE TRANSPORTATION SERVICES PROVIDED BY TRANSPORTATION NETWORK COMPANIES
 AS  THAT  TERM  IS  DEFINED IN SECTION SIXTEEN HUNDRED NINETY-ONE OF THE
 VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW; TAXICABS, AS DEFINED  IN  SECTION  ONE  HUNDRED
 FORTY-EIGHT-A  OF  THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW AND SECTION 19-502 OF THE
 ADMINISTRATIVE CODE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, OR AS OTHERWISE DEFINED  IN
 LOCAL  LAW;  LIVERY  VEHICLES, AS DEFINED IN SECTION ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-
 ONE-E OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW, OR AS OTHERWISE DEFINED  IN  LOCAL
 LAW;  A BLACK CAR, LIMOUSINE, OR LUXURY LIMOUSINE, AS DEFINED IN SECTION
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13244-01-5
              

 A. 8940                             2
 
 19-502 OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, OR AS  OTHER-
 WISE  DEFINED  IN  LOCAL  LAW; A FOR-HIRE VEHICLE, AS DEFINED IN SECTION
 19-502 OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE CODE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, OR AS  OTHER-
 WISE  DEFINED  IN LOCAL LAW; OR A BUS, AS DEFINED IN SECTION ONE HUNDRED
 FOUR OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW, BUT NOT A BUS OPERATED BY A GOVERN-
 MENT FOR PURPOSES OF THE PROVISION OF PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.