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Assembly Bill A9388

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires that businesses offering physical manipulation services ensure clear visibility from the public right-of-way into certain public spaces on the premises of such businesses

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2025-A9388 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Economic Development
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add §391-y, Gen Bus L

2025-A9388 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires that businesses offering physical manipulation services ensure that certain windows, entrances, and public-facing areas are unobscured and that there is clear visibility from the public right-of-way into certain public spaces on the premises of such businesses; defines physical manipulation services to include massage therapy, reflexology, services provided on feet at foot spas, bodywork, acupressure, and any other service that involves physically manipulating any part of a human body; exempts services provided by certain persons from being included in such definition.

2025-A9388 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9388
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             December 19, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. HOOKS -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Economic Development
 
 AN ACT to amend the general  business  law,  in  relation  to  requiring
   certain  public  areas  of  businesses  offering physical manipulation
   services to be clearly visible from the outside

   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
 391-y to read as follows:
   §  391-Y.  BUSINESSES  OFFERING PHYSICAL MANIPULATION SERVICES.   1. A
 BUSINESS OFFERING PHYSICAL MANIPULATION SERVICES SHALL KEEP ANY  STREET-
 FACING  WINDOWS,  ENTRANCES,  AND PUBLIC-FACING AREAS OF THE PREMISES OF
 SUCH BUSINESS UNOBSCURED AND SHALL ENSURE THAT THERE IS CLEAR VISIBILITY
 FROM THE PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY INTO THE LOBBY, RECEPTION, WAITING AREA, OR
 OTHER PUBLIC-FACING AREA OF SUCH PREMISES.
   2. A. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION,  THE  TERM  "PHYSICAL  MANIPU-
 LATION  SERVICES"  SHALL  INCLUDE MASSAGE THERAPY, REFLEXOLOGY, SERVICES
 PROVIDED ON FEET AT FOOT  SPAS,  BODYWORK,  ACUPRESSURE,  OR  ANY  OTHER
 SERVICE  THAT INVOLVES PHYSICALLY MANIPULATING ANY PART OF A HUMAN BODY,
 WHETHER OR NOT SUCH SERVICES REQUIRE STATE LICENSURE.
   B.  THE  TERM  "PHYSICAL  MANIPULATION  SERVICES"  SHALL  NOT  INCLUDE
 SERVICES PROVIDED:
   (I)  BY  ANY  PERSON  WHO IS AUTHORIZED TO PRACTICE MEDICINE, NURSING,
 OSTEOPATHY, PHYSIOTHERAPY, CHIROPRACTIC, OR PODIATRY IN ACCORDANCE  WITH
 THE PROVISIONS OF TITLE EIGHT OF THE EDUCATION LAW;
   (II)  IN BARBER SHOPS OR BEAUTY PARLORS FOR THE PURPOSE OF BEAUTIFICA-
 TION BY ANY LICENSED BARBER OR BEAUTY CULTURIST;
   (III) BY ANY PERSON EMPLOYED IN  A  MEDICAL  INSTITUTION  LICENSED  OR
 CHARTERED  BY  THE STATE OF NEW YORK, PROVIDED THAT SUCH PERSON IS UNDER
 THE ON-SITE SUPERVISION OF A PERSON LICENSED TO PRACTICE MASSAGE THERAPY
 OR AUTHORIZED TO PRACTICE MASSAGE THERAPY BY SUBDIVISION ONE OF  SECTION
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14241-01-5

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