NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A8976
SPONSOR: Jackson TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring
cosmetology licensees to disclose the price of cosmetology services at
booking and prior to the start of such services
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
To disclose prices of cosmetology services at booking and prior to the
beginning of services to prevent confusion and over-charging of custom-
ers
SUMMARY OF PROVISION:
Section 1: sets parameters for the disclosure of prices of cosmetology
services.
Section 2: sets effective date
JUSTIFICATION:
This bill aims to prevent customers from being overcharged for services
or unwillingly paying for services out of their preferred price range by
mandating the price of cosmetology services be disclosed prior to book-
ing and before services begin.
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New Bill
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:
TBD.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have
become a law.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8976
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
August 13, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. JACKSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Economic Development
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring
cosmetology licensees to disclose the price of cosmetology services at
booking and prior to the start of such services
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
2 404-d to read as follows:
3 § 404-d. Pricing disclosures. Every licensee shall disclose, at the
4 time of booking an appointment for cosmetology services and prior to the
5 start of such services, the price of such services to be provided at
6 such appointment. Such disclosure shall include, but not be limited to,
7 written or verbal information describing the services to be performed
8 and rules surrounding the provision of such services for the customer
9 and a verbal description of the services to be performed before any such
10 services can be performed at or about the time of the appointment.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
12 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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