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S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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8638
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
May 22, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. KIM -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Consumer Affairs and 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:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 623 of the general business law,
2 as amended by chapter 660 of the laws of 1990, is amended and a new
3 subdivision 6 is added to read as follows:
4 1. No contract for services shall require payment by the person
5 receiving service or the use of the facilities of a total amount in
6 excess of three thousand six hundred dollars per annum, provided, howev-
7 er, that this subdivision shall not apply to contracts relating solely
8 to the use of tennis, platform tennis [or] AND racquet ball facilities,
9 AND MULTI-SERVICE HEALTH CLUBS.
10 6. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE TERM MULTI-SERVICE HEALTH
11 CLUB SHALL MEAN ANY NEW YORK BASED HEALTH CLUB OR GYM WHICH OFFERS OR
12 OFFERS ACCESS TO THREE OR MORE OF THE FOLLOWING AMENITIES: DIGITAL PLAT-
13 FORM SERVICES SUCH AS ON-DEMAND CLASSES; INDIVIDUALIZED TRAINING
14 PROGRAMMING; FITNESS INSTRUCTOR TRAINING AND/OR CERTIFICATION; SPA
15 TREATMENTS, CO-WORKING SPACE, CHILDCARE; RECURRING GROUP FITNESS CLASS-
16 ES; ADULT AND/OR YOUTH SPORTS PROGRAMMING; LOCKER ROOM WITH AMENITIES
17 SUCH AS LAUNDRY SERVICE, STEAM ROOMS, AND OTHER TOILETRIES; SWIMMING
18 POOL OR SWIMMING POOLS, OR ON-SITE FOOD AND BEVERAGE.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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