Illinois House Bill 5500

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on February 9 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-02-09 - Referred to Rules Committee
Pending: House Rules Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amends the Administration Article of the Illinois Public Aid Code. Provides that to reduce the risk of SNAP and TANF recipients becoming the victims of benefits fraud by means of card skimming, card cloning, or some other similar fraudulent method, the Department of Human Services shall begin the process of transitioning to the use of electronic benefits transfer (EBT) cards embedded with smart chip technology that enables cardholders to make a payment transaction by either inserting their EBT card into a card-reader or by "tapping" their EBT card onto a payment terminal or card reader that is enabled to accept and process contactless payments. Provides that the transition to EBT cards embedded with smart chip technology shall be completed no later than January 1, 2026 and that all EBT cards issued by the Department on and after January 1, 2026 shall be enabled with smart chip technology. Provides that EBT cards, including LINK cards, issued by the Department prior to the Department's roll-out of smart-chip-enabled cards, shall be replaced by January 1, 2026 with EBT cards embedded with smart chip technology. Effective immediately.

SMART-CHIP-ENABLED LINK CARDS

Rep. Kevin Olickal [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-02-09	House	Referred to Rules Committee
2024-02-09	House	First Reading
2024-02-09	House	Filed with the Clerk by Rep. Kevin John Olickal

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
305	5	12-4.57a	New Code	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/BillStatus.asp?DocNum=5500&GAID=17&DocTypeID=HB&SessionID=112&GA=103
Text	https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/103/HB/10300HB5500.htm