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Assembly Bill A9135

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to online marketplace verification

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2025-A9135 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Consumer Affairs And Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add §396-ddd, Gen Bus L

2025-A9135 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires all online marketplaces to require every person engaged in a transaction on its marketplace website, application or software, to verify their identity with the online marketplace.

2025-A9135 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9135
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             October 17, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. VANEL -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Consumer Affairs and Protection
 
 AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to online  market-
   place verification
 
   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
 396-ddd to read as follows:
   § 396-DDD. ONLINE MARKETPLACE VERIFICATION. 1. AN  ONLINE  MARKETPLACE
 SHALL  REQUIRE  EVERY PERSON ENGAGED IN A TRANSACTION ON ITS MARKETPLACE
 WEBSITE, APPLICATION OR SOFTWARE, TO  VERIFY  THEIR  IDENTITY  WITH  THE
 ONLINE  MARKETPLACE.  FOR  THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, "ONLINE MARKET-
 PLACE" SHALL MEAN ANY WEBSITE, APPLICATION OR SOFTWARE CONNECTED TO  THE
 INTERNET WHICH, IN THE REGULAR COURSE OF BUSINESS, ALLOWS MEMBERS OF THE
 PUBLIC TO BUY AND SELL GOODS AND SERVICES.
   2.  THE VERIFICATION REQUIRED BY SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION SHALL
 BE CONDUCTED THROUGH A METHOD REASONABLY DESIGNED TO IDENTIFY  THE  TRUE
 IDENTITY OF A PERSON.
   3.  AN  ONLINE MARKETPLACE SHALL BE LIABLE FOR A CIVIL PENALTY OF FIVE
 HUNDRED DOLLARS PER SALE MADE BETWEEN  ANY  PARTIES  WHICH  IS  MADE  IN
 VIOLATION OF THIS SECTION.
   §  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.
                                                            LBD13839-01-5

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