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S3816 • 2025

Requires mercantile establishments to cease collections under certain circumstances

Requires mercantile establishments to cease collections under certain circumstances

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Sponsor
Luis R. Sepúlveda
Last action
2026-06-05
Official status
In Senate Committee
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Requires mercantile establishments to cease collections under certain circumstances

Requires mercantile establishments to cease collections under certain circumstances Requires mercantile establishments to cease collections upon a court finding of not guilty of larceny in mercantile establishments.

What This Bill Does

  • Requires mercantile establishments to cease collections under certain circumstances Requires mercantile establishments to cease collections upon a court finding of not guilty of larceny in mercantile establishments.

Limits and Unknowns

  • This entry is temporarily using official source text because the generated explanation could not be confirmed against the official bill text during the last sync.

Bill History

  1. 2026-06-05 Senate

    COMMITTED TO RULES

  2. 2026-03-23 Senate

    ADVANCED TO THIRD READING

  3. 2026-03-19 Senate

    2ND REPORT CAL.

  4. 2026-03-18 Senate

    1ST REPORT CAL.569

  5. 2026-01-07 Senate

    REFERRED TO JUDICIARY

  6. 2025-01-30 Senate

    REFERRED TO JUDICIARY

Official Summary Text

Requires mercantile establishments to cease collections under certain circumstances
Requires mercantile establishments to cease collections upon a court finding of not guilty of larceny in mercantile establishments.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          3816

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                    I N  S E N A T E

                                    January 30, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Judiciary

        AN  ACT  to  amend the general obligations law, in relation to requiring
          mercantile establishments to cease collections upon a court finding of
          not guilty of larceny in mercantile establishments

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

     1    Section 1. Section 11-105 of the general obligations law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 13 to read as follows:
     3    13.  CESSATION  OF  COLLECTIONS  UPON FINDING OF NOT GUILTY. AN ADULT,
     4  EMANCIPATED MINOR, OR THE PARENTS OR LEGAL GUARDIANS OF AN UNEMANCIPATED
     5  MINOR WHO IS FOUND NOT GUILTY  IN  ANY  PROCEEDING  BROUGHT  UNDER  THIS
     6  SECTION  SHALL  NOT  BE CIVILLY LIABLE TO THE OPERATOR OF THE MERCANTILE
     7  ESTABLISHMENT BRINGING THE PROCEEDING AND ANY ATTEMPTS TO COLLECT  MONEY
     8  OR RECOVER MERCHANDISE FROM THE ADULT, EMANCIPATED MINOR, OR THE PARENTS
     9  OR LEGAL GUARDIANS OF AN UNEMANCIPATED MINOR SHALL IMMEDIATELY CEASE.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08313-01-5