Requires vehicle rental agreements instruct renters to remove personal information before returning the vehicle; permits rental vehicles to have decals informing the renter to remove such information when returning the vehicle.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A9924A
SPONSOR: Jackson TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the general business law, in relation to personal infor-
mation being removed from rental vehicles
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
The purpose of the bill is to include in a rental agreement that any
information uploaded to a vehicle by a renter, must be removed prior to
returning the vehicle.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1: Section 396-z of the general business law is amended by
adding a new subdivision 17 that requires all rental vehicle companies
to include a clause, within rental agreements, that instructs all
renters to remove their personal information from vehicles before
returning them and allows the option to place a decal within the vehicle
that reminds renters of this clause.
Section 2: This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it
shall have become law.
JUSTIFICATION:
Modem vehicles tend to include applications and software that allows you
to upload your personal information in order to make calling, music
playing, and other processes easier while driving. Although this is
useful for the renter, it leaves their personal information vulnerable
to the next renter. This bill protects consumers by including a clause
in all car rental agreements that requires renters to remove their
personal information from the rented vehicles before their return.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New bill.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
TBD.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall have
become law.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9924--A
IN ASSEMBLY
April 26, 2024
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Introduced by M. of A. JACKSON, DICKENS, ARDILA -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to personal infor-
mation being removed from rental vehicles
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 396-z of the general business law is amended by
2 adding a new subdivision 17 to read as follows:
3 17. A rental vehicle company shall:
4 (a) include in the car rental agreement a clause instructing the
5 renter to remove their personal information from vehicles before return-
6 ing the vehicle.
7 (b) have the option to place inside all rental vehicles a decal
8 instructing renters to remove their personal information from the vehi-
9 cle before returning the vehicle.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
11 have become a law; provided however that the amendments to section 396-z
12 of the general business law made by section one of this act shall
13 survive the expiration and reversion of such section as provided in
14 subdivision (a) of section 4 of chapter 109 of the laws of 2018, as
15 amended.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14886-04-4
