Bill Commons

NY S 5849

in committee

Requires hotels and lodging facilities to contact certain guests who leave items or identifying documents behind

New York · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Quick answers

Did NY S 5849 pass?

Not yet. NY S 5849 is in committee as of 2026-03-24 and has not come to a final vote. Latest recorded action (2026-03-24): PRINT NUMBER 5849A

What is NY S 5849 about?

Requires hotels and lodging facilities to make at least two attempts to contact guests who leave any item of greater than nominal value or identification documents behind within 48 hours of the completion of their stay where such guest chose to be contacted for such reasons; requires the destruction of any identification documents if the owner cannot be contacted; limits the liability of a lodging owner or operator for damage or loss during shipping.

Who sponsors NY S 5849?

James Skoufis is the primary sponsor of NY S 5849.

Description

Requires hotels and lodging facilities to make at least two attempts to contact guests who leave any item of greater than nominal value or identification documents behind within 48 hours of the completion of their stay where such guest chose to be contacted for such reasons; requires the destruction of any identification documents if the owner cannot be contacted; limits the liability of a lodging owner or operator for damage or loss during shipping.

Introduced
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Latest action
2026-03-24 — PRINT NUMBER 5849A
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Sponsors

  • James Skoufisprimary

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-03-03

    REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION

    referral-committee

  2. 2026-01-07

    REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION

    referral-committee

  3. 2026-03-24

    AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CONSUMER PROTECTION

    amendment-passage,referral-committee

  4. 2026-03-24

    PRINT NUMBER 5849A

    amendment-passage

Versions

Documents

Votes

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Related bills

  • Prior session: S 6884not in this corpus

Official source

https://legislation.nysenate.gov/api/3/bills/2025-2026/S5849?summary=&detail=

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