Have you ever been trapped in a subscription that you wanted to cancel, but couldn’t figure out how?

Maybe the cancellation button on the website was hidden behind endless menus, or you couldn’t get through to a real person on the phone, and just gave up, resigning yourself to the continued monthly fees.

Those days appear to be over for New Yorkers. The 2025 state budget, which the legislature is expected to finalize within days, includes a new law requiring companies to offer easy cancellation methods for
subscriptions ranging from cable TV to Spotify. Critically, the final version of that law, which will take effect in November, removes a sweeping loophole initially proposed by Governor Kathy Hochul that would have exempted some of the country’s largest companies.