A 8940: Includes for-hire transportation services in the prohibition on price gouging; provides that such 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.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8940 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY July 16, 2025 ___________ 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: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 396-r of the general business law 2 is amended by adding two new paragraphs (f) and (g) to read as follows: 3 (f) This prohibition shall apply to for-hire transportation services 4 after the declaration of a state of emergency by the governor tied to an 5 abnormal disruption of the market or upon notice from the governor, 6 attorney general or the chief executive of any municipality of the state 7 that an abnormal disruption of the market exists; provided, however, 8 such notice from the governor, attorney general or chief executive may 9 request that such for-hire transportation service adjust its pricing in 10 a manner which incentivizes increased transportation options in a 11 specific geographic area. 12 (g) For the purposes of this section, the term "for-hire transporta- 13 tion services" shall mean the sale of vehicular ground transportation by 14 a seller for a price, the origin, destination, or both being within New 15 York state, whether provided by the seller itself or provided by third 16 parties employing the seller's platform to connect passengers and driv- 17 ers. For-hire transportation services include, but are not limited to, 18 the transportation services provided by transportation network companies 19 as that term is defined in section sixteen hundred ninety-one of the 20 vehicle and traffic law; taxicabs, as defined in section one hundred 21 forty-eight-a of the vehicle and traffic law and section 19-502 of the 22 administrative code of the city of New York, or as otherwise defined in 23 local law; livery vehicles, as defined in section one hundred twenty- 24 one-e of the vehicle and traffic law, or as otherwise defined in local 25 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 1 19-502 of the administrative code of the city of New York, or as other- 2 wise defined in local law; a for-hire vehicle, as defined in section 3 19-502 of the administrative code of the city of New York, or as other- 4 wise defined in local law; or a bus, as defined in section one hundred 5 four of the vehicle and traffic law, but not a bus operated by a govern- 6 ment for purposes of the provision of public transportation. 7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.