SENATE BILL REPORT

                                    SB 5719

                              AS OF MARCH 4, 1991

Brief Description:  Changing provisions regulating health studio contracts.

SPONSORS:Senators Matson and Moore.

SENATE COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE & LABOR

Staff:  Jonathan Seib (786‑7427)

Hearing Dates:March 5, 1991

BACKGROUND:

The health studios law authorizes a buyer to cancel a health studio contract for any reason upon 30 days' written notice if that contract extends for more than one year.

The law also authorizes a buyer to cancel a health studio contract with an existing facility upon written notice within three days of signing the contract.  For a contract signed prior to the opening of a facility, the buyer may cancel within the first five days the facility opens.

SUMMARY:

The authority of a buyer to cancel a health studio contract for any reason if that contract extends for more than one year is removed.

For a health studio contract signed prior to the opening of a facility, the time within which the buyer may cancel the contract is reduced from five days to three days. 

Appropriation:  none

Revenue:  none

Fiscal Note:  none requested