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Legislative Action

One of SEEK’s keystone initiatives is in the area of legislative action. The self-help industry is fractured and unregulated. There is no internal licensing body or professional organization to ensure that providers in the industry are operating with basic standards, or to step in when self-help practitioners have harmed customers. There is a need for legislative action in order create some level of consumer safety and practitioner accountability.

SEEK has been working with legislators in New York to address these issues and we’ve made great progress. We are currently working with Senator Skoufis to pass Bill S1643 (note, the number changed from S4846B in Jan 2021).

Here are some of the highlights of this bill as it stands now:

  • self-help practitioners must provide their customers with a copy of their “bill of rights”
  • self-help practitioners must clearly outline any potential risks to the emotional or physical well-being of their customers
  • self-help practitioners must outline their risk management plan, including emergency medical assistance
  • self-help practitioners cannot use misleading marketing to promote their services

We believe these steps will go a long way to making self-help events safer for consumers and giving consumers more information about the services in which they are investing their time, money, and energy.

For more information, read the briefing note we created to inform legislators about the bill.

Read the Bill itself and click to support it if you’re a NY State resident.

Watch our discussion about this effort from our Virtual Kirby Jam on December 4, 2020.

We will need help when it comes time to vote for the bill. More info on that to come, but in the meantime, you can always contact your representatives (if you are a NY state resident) to encourage them to support this effort.

  • Find your NY State Senator
  • Find your NY State Assembly Member

Thanks for all your help and support!

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Ginny meeting with then-Assemblyman James Skoufis (now a Senator), one of the original drafters of this bill.

02/12/2019
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Legislative Update Winter 2019

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12/10/2018
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SEEK Safely End of Year Appeal

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10/08/2017
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8 YEARS Ago

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05/15/2017
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Our Bill is now in the NY State Senate! Call your Senator!

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04/07/2017
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NY Legislative Effort–We Need Your Help!

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09/20/2016
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Legislative Briefing Note

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09/20/2016
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Ideas for Regulating Self-help

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