New York legislation · 2025-2026 General Assembly
New York A8773: Relates to warranties and sales incentives
Status: In committee, June 1, 2026
Requires every franchisor, including its affiliates and subsidiaries to properly fulfill any warranty agreement and/or franchisor's service contract and to compensate each of its franchised motor vehicle dealers for warranty parts and labor, including but not limited to all warranty repairs, extended service contract repairs, extended warranty repairs, campaigns, service bulletins, policy repairs, component part warranties, factory compensated repairs, recalls, diagnostics, parts and other voluntary stop-sell repairs, and any other franchisor compensated repairs; relates to reimbursement to a motor vehicle dealer from a motor vehicle franchisor.
What the bill says
An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to procedures relating to warranties and sales incentives.
From the introduced text, June 2, 2025:
AN ACT to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to procedures relating to warranties and sales incentives THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 465 of the vehicle and traffic law, as amended by chapter 301 of the laws of 2024, is amended to read as follows: 1. Every franchisor, INCLUDING ITS AFFILIATES AND SUBSIDIARIES shall properly fulfill any warranty agreement and/or franchisor's service contract AND SHALL COMPENSATE EACH OF ITS FRANCHISED MOTOR VEHICLE DEALERS FOR WARRANTY PARTS AND LABOR, including but not limited to all warranty repairs, extended SERVICE CONTRACT REPAIRS, EXTENDED warranty repairs, CAMPAIGNS, SERVICE BULLETINS, POLICY REPAIRS, COMPONENT PART WARRANTIES, factory compensated repairs, recalls, diagnostics, parts and other voluntary stop-sell repairs, AND ANY OTHER FRANCHISOR COMPENSATED REPAIRS and shall compensate each of its franchised motor vehicle dealers for all warranty, recall, diagnostic labor operations and parts where applicable in amounts which reflect reasonable compensation for such work. For purposes of this section, reasonable compensation shall be the reasonable labor time allowances defined by the retail labor time guide reasonably utilized by a franchised motor vehicle dealer for nonwarranty customer paid labor operations. WHERE SUCH THIRD PARTY GUIDE IS UNAVAILABLE, DOES NOT CONTAIN A PARTICULAR REPAIR OR NEW VEHICLE, OR …
Sponsors
- William Magnarelli (D, 129) · primary sponsor
- John McDonald (D, 108)
- Phillip Steck (D, 110)
- Jeffrey Dinowitz (D, 81)
- Demond Meeks (D, 137)
- Jennifer Lunsford (D, 135)
- Claire Valdez (D, 37)
- Karines Reyes (D, 87)
- Carrie Woerner (D, 113)
- Larinda Hooks (D, 35)
- Sarahana Shrestha (D, 103)
- Andrew Hevesi (D, 28)
Latest actions
- : REFERRED TO RULES
- : DELIVERED TO SENATE
- : PASSED ASSEMBLY
- : ORDERED TO THIRD READING RULES CAL.302
- : RULES REPORT CAL.302
- : REPORTED
- : REPORTED REFERRED TO RULES
- : REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION
- : REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION
Votes
- Assembly Rules Committee: Favorable (June 1, 2026): 28 yea, 0 nay, passed
- Assembly Floor Vote - Final Passage (June 1, 2026): 136 yea, 3 nay, passed
- Assembly Transportation Committee: Favorable refer to committee Rules (May 27, 2026): 21 yea, 3 nay, passed
Subjects: Vehicle and Traffic Law
Common questions
- What is A8773?
- A8773 is a bill in the New York Legislature (2025-2026 General Assembly): Relates to warranties and sales incentives.
- What does A8773 do?
- In its own words: An act to amend the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to procedures relating to warranties and sales incentives.
- What is the status of A8773?
- In committee as of June 1, 2026. Latest action: REFERRED TO RULES (June 1, 2026).
- Who sponsored A8773?
- William Magnarelli (D, 129), with 11 co-sponsors.
- Where is the official record for A8773?
- On the New York Legislature website: https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A8773
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