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S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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4521
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
February 4, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Consumer Affairs and Protection
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to the definition
of "protected consumer"
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision (o) of section 380-a of the general business
law, as added by chapter 441 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as
follows:
(o) The term "protected consumer" means an individual who is under the
age of [sixteen] EIGHTEEN years at the time a request for the placement
of a security freeze is made.
§ 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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