Bill Text: NJ A310 | 2010-2011 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Requires account numbers to be truncated on certain sales receipts.
Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 6-3)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-03-04 - Received in the Senate, Referred to Senate Commerce Committee [A310 Detail]
Download: New_Jersey-2010-A310-Amended.html
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ASSEMBLY, No. 310
STATE OF NEW JERSEY
214th LEGISLATURE
PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2010 SESSION
Sponsored by:
Assemblyman BRIAN E. RUMPF
District 9 (Atlantic, Burlington and Ocean)
Assemblyman JON M. BRAMNICK
District 21 (Essex, Morris, Somerset and Union)
Assemblyman MATTHEW W. MILAM
District 1 (Cape May, Atlantic and Cumberland)
Assemblywoman ANNETTE QUIJANO
District 20 (Union)
Co-Sponsored by:
Assemblyman O'Scanlon, Assemblywoman Gove, Assemblyman Rumana, Assemblywoman Addiego and Assemblyman Rudder
SYNOPSIS
Requires account numbers to be truncated on certain sales receipts.
CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT
As reported by the Assembly Consumer Affairs Committee on February 8, 2010, with amendments.
An Act concerning sales receipts and amending P.L.2002, c.101.
Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:
1. Section 1 of P.L.2002, c.101 (C56:11-42) is amended to read as follows:
1. No retail sales establishment shall print electronically more than the last five digits of a customer's credit card or debit card account number or the expiration date of that credit or debit card upon any sales receipt either provided at the point of sale to the customer or retained by the retail sales establishment, except that the provisions of this section shall not apply to any sales receipt in which the sole means of recording the customer's credit card or debit card number is by handwriting or by an imprint or copy of the credit or debit card.
A violation of this section shall be punishable by a civil penalty of not more than $1,000, which shall be collected and enforced through summary proceedings pursuant to the "Penalty Enforcement Law of 1999," P.L.1999, c.274 (C.2A:58-10 et seq.).
1Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to apply to any document used for internal administrative purposes.1
(cf: P.L.2002, c.101, s.1)
2. This act shall take effect on the first day of the thirteenth month following enactment.
