S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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8015
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
May 15, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer 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