Senate Consumer Protection Committee reports nine consumer-related bills to first reading

Sen. Rachel May, chair of the New York State Senate Standing Committee on Consumer Protection, presided over the committee’s fifth meeting of the 2025 legislative session in Albany and reported nine bills to first reading on the Senate calendar.

The measures considered cover a range of consumer issues, including requirements for cleanup after tows, prohibitions on certain substances in toys and child-care products, a Consumer Wheelchair Repair Bill of Rights, limits on post-sale vehicle subscription fees, hair-relaxer labeling, prohibitions on repossession clauses in pet purchase or financing contracts, accessible licensing documents from the Department of State, mobile barbershop owner licenses and limits on sales of xylazine by weight.

The committee moved and seconded each bill and, where recorded in the transcript, there were no recorded nays. Committee members registered “AWR” (as noted in the record) on a small number of items; the transcript does not define that abbreviation.

Among the items discussed, Sen. May called…