A9634 • 2025

Requires regulating bodies provide businesses with notice of new rules and regulations

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Sponsor: Andrew Molitor
Last action: 2026-05-19
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Requires regulating bodies provide businesses with notice of new rules and regulations

Requires regulating bodies provide businesses with notice of new rules and regulations Requires regulating bodies provide businesses with notice of new rules and regulations within sixty days of such rule or regulation being filed with the secretary of state; provides businesses are given one hundred eighty days to comply with any such rules or regulations.

What This Bill Does

Requires regulating bodies provide businesses with notice of new rules and regulations Requires regulating bodies provide businesses with notice of new rules and regulations within sixty days of such rule or regulation being filed with the secretary of state; provides businesses are given one hundred eighty days to comply with any such rules or regulations.

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Bill History

2026-05-19 Assembly
HELD FOR CONSIDERATION IN GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS
2026-01-21 Assembly
REFERRED TO GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS

Official Summary Text

Requires regulating bodies provide businesses with notice of new rules and regulations
Requires regulating bodies provide businesses with notice of new rules and regulations within sixty days of such rule or regulation being filed with the secretary of state; provides businesses are given one hundred eighty days to comply with any such rules or regulations.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          9634

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                    January 21, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. MOLITOR -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Governmental Operations

        AN ACT to amend the state administrative procedure act, in  relation  to
          requiring  regulating bodies provide certain businesses with notice of
          new rules and regulations

          THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  5 of section 202 of the state administrative
     2  procedure act is amended by adding  a  new  paragraph  (d)  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    (D)  WITHIN  SIXTY  DAYS OF AN AGENCY FILING A RULE OR REGULATION WITH
     5  THE SECRETARY OF STATE, THE AGENCY SHALL  MAKE  PUBLICLY  AVAILABLE  THE
     6  NOTICE OF ADOPTION FOR SUCH RULE OR REGULATION TO EACH RELEVANT BUSINESS
     7  EFFECTED  BY  SUCH RULE OR REGULATION. NOTICE SHALL BE BY THE MOST COST-
     8  EFFECTIVE MEANS POSSIBLE, INCLUDING,  BUT  NOT  LIMITED  TO,  AN  EASILY
     9  ACCESSIBLE  PUBLIC-FACING WEBSITE, ELECTRONIC MAIL, OR BY LETTER. NOTICE
    10  CAN ALSO BE PROVIDED TO A TRADE ASSOCIATION OR GROUP  FOR  DISTRIBUTION.
    11  IF  A BUSINESS WAS REGISTERED WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE, NOTICE SHALL
    12  BE CONSIDERED CONSTRUCTIVE NOTICE.  WHERE  A  BUSINESS  RECEIVES  PROPER
    13  ACTUAL  NOTICE  OR  CONSTRUCTIVE  NOTICE,  A BUSINESS SHALL BE GRANTED A
    14  ONE-HUNDRED-EIGHTY-DAY GRACE PERIOD TO IMPLEMENT SUCH NEW RULE OR  REGU-
    15  LATION.  DURING  THIS  GRACE  PERIOD,  NO  FINES  OR PUNISHMENT SHALL BE
    16  IMPOSED. WHERE SUCH PROPER ACTUAL NOTICE WAS NOT PROVIDED, THE  RULE  OR
    17  REGULATION  SHALL  BE UNENFORCEABLE UPON SUCH BUSINESS UNTIL ONE HUNDRED
    18  EIGHTY DAYS AFTER SUCH NOTICE IS ACTUALLY PROVIDED.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and  shall  apply  to  any
    20  rules or regulations filed with the secretary of state on and after such
    21  date.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13276-03-6