New York State Senator introduced bill S5746 in 2013 to establish statewide regulation of towing and storage fees, an early legislative effort that would eventually evolve into the S7717 bill still being debated in 2025, according to the New York Senate. The bill represented one of the first comprehensive attempts to cap towing fees at the state level in New York.
Operator takeaway
New York has been trying to cap towing fees since 2013 — twelve years of legislative effort shows how difficult fee cap legislation is to pass when the industry is engaged in the process.