Bill Text: NY S08662 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Requires electronic benefit transfer systems to allow for benefit recipients to cancel or lock a credit or debit card when fraud has been suspected or reported; directs that any interactive voice response system associated with an electronic benefit transfer system which benefit recipients may call for support or assistance shall include an option for benefit recipients to report fraud and cancel, lock or unlock their electronic benefit transfer credit or debit card.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-06-06 - SUBSTITUTED BY A9269B [S08662 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S08662-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         8662--A

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 27, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. FELDER, SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and  when  printed to be committed to the Committee on Social Services
          -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as  amended
          and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring elec-
          tronic benefit transfer systems to include fraud detection  for  unau-
          thorized transactions

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 21-a of the social services law is
     2  amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
     3    (c) Any interactive voice response system associated with an electron-
     4  ic benefit transfer system which benefit recipients may call for support
     5  or assistance shall include an option for benefit recipients  to  report
     6  fraud  and  cancel  such benefit recipient's electronic benefit transfer
     7  credit or debit card permanently or lock such benefit recipient's  elec-
     8  tronic  benefit  transfer  credit or debit card indefinitely.  Provided,
     9  further, any interactive voice response system associated with an  elec-
    10  tronic  benefit  transfer  system  which benefit recipients may call for
    11  support or assistance shall also allow for benefit  recipients  to  lock
    12  such benefit recipient's credit or debit card for out of state purchases
    13  only or for online purchases only.
    14    §  2. This act shall take effect six months after it shall have become
    15  a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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