S2088 • 2025

Requires vehicle rental agreements instruct renters to remove personal information before returning the vehicle and permits rental vehicles to have decals informing the renter to remove such information

Housing

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Sponsor: Brian Kavanagh
Last action: 2026-06-15
Official status: Stricken
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires vehicle rental agreements instruct renters to remove personal information before returning the vehicle and permits rental vehicles to have decals informing the renter to remove such information

Requires vehicle rental agreements instruct renters to remove personal information before returning the vehicle and permits rental vehicles to have decals informing the renter to remove such information Requires rental vehicles have any personal information removed from the vehicle once returned.

What This Bill Does

Requires vehicle rental agreements instruct renters to remove personal information before returning the vehicle and permits rental vehicles to have decals informing the renter to remove such information Requires rental vehicles have any personal information removed from the vehicle once returned.

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Bill History

2026-06-15 Senate
RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN
2026-01-07 Senate
REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION
2025-01-15 Senate
REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION

Official Summary Text

Requires vehicle rental agreements instruct renters to remove personal information before returning the vehicle and permits rental vehicles to have decals informing the renter to remove such information
Requires rental vehicles have any personal information removed from the vehicle once returned.

Current Bill Text

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

                                          2088

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                    January 15, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. KAVANAGH -- 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  requiring
          rental vehicles have any personal information removed from the vehicle
          once returned

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

     1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
     2  391-r to read as follows:
     3    § 391-R. PERSONAL INFORMATION ON RENTAL VEHICLES.  ANY  PERSON,  FIRM,
     4  PARTNERSHIP, ASSOCIATION OR CORPORATION ENGAGED IN THE BUSINESS OF RENT-
     5  ING  MOTOR  VEHICLES  SHALL,  UPON  RECEIPT  OF  A RENTAL VEHICLE FROM A
     6  CUSTOMER, REMOVE ALL PERSONAL INFORMATION FROM SUCH VEHICLE RELATING  TO
     7  THE CUSTOMER.
     8    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
     9  have become a law.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03396-02-5