S 1651: Relates to special provisions for not-for-profit sales.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1651 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 13, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BAILEY -- 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 special provisions of the not-for-profit sales The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 802 of the general business law, as added by chap- 2 ter 599 of the laws of 1998, subdivision 1 as designated and subdivision 3 2 as added by chapter 301 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as 4 follows: 5 § 802. Special provisions[; not-for-profit sales]. 1. [No otolaryn- 6 gologist or other licensed physician who has conducted a medical evalu- 7 ation of hearing loss shall engage in the business of dispensing hearing 8 aids for a profit.] No otolaryngologist or other licensed physician who 9 has dispensed a hearing aid shall refuse or fail to perform repairs or 10 service on any hearing aid that they have dispensed. 11 2. Every licensed physician who engages in the dispensing of hearing 12 aids in compliance with the provisions of this section shall be required 13 to comply with sections seven hundred ninety-one, seven hundred ninety- 14 eight and eight hundred three of this article, in addition to compliance 15 with this section. 16 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04700-01-5