Bill Text: NJ A464 | 2024-2025 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for preparation and distribution of written notice to senior citizens concerning risks and prevention of fraud and identity theft.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-09 - Introduced, Referred to Assembly Aging and Human Services Committee [A464 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2024-A464-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 464

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

221st LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2024 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  JOE DANIELSEN

District 17 (Middlesex and Somerset)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Provides for preparation and distribution of written notice to senior citizens concerning risks and prevention of fraud and identity theft.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.

  

An Act concerning the distribution of information on fraud and identity theft to senior citizens and supplementing Title 30 and Title 52 of the Revised Statutes.

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    a.  The Director of the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety shall prepare a notice that, at a minimum:

     (1)   provides information to alert senior citizens about the different ways in which senior citizens may be contacted for, or lured into providing, information or funds for a fraudulent purpose; and

     (2)   advises senior citizens of ways to prevent the loss of funds or identity theft.

     b.    The notice prepared pursuant to this section shall be: 

     (1)   regularly revised and updated by the director, as appropriate, to reflect the most current information on fraud and identity theft; and

     (2)   annually distributed to senior citizens pursuant to section 2 of P.L.    , c.    (C.        ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill).

 

     2.    a.  The Commissioner of Human Services shall annually disseminate the notice on fraud and identity theft that is prepared by the Director of the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety pursuant to section 1 of P.L.    , c.    (C.        ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill).  At a minimum, the notice shall be distributed to: 

     (1)   members of the public, upon request; and

     (2)   each organization that is contracted by or receives State funding from the Department of Human Services and that provides services to senior citizens 60 years of age or older, for dissemination by the organization to senior citizens in the course of business. 

     b.    The commissioner shall annually post an updated copy of the notice on fraud and identity theft that is prepared by the Director of the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety pursuant to section 1 of P.L.    , c.    (C.        ) (pending before the Legislature as this bill) on the Internet website of the Department of Human Services. 

 

     3.    This act shall take effect on the first day of the fourth month next following the date of enactment.

STATEMENT

 

     This bill requires the Commissioner of Human Services to annually disseminate, to appropriate parties, a notice on fraud and identity theft that is to be prepared by the Director of the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety.

     At a minimum, the notice prepared by the director is to provide information necessary to alert senior citizens about the different ways in which senior citizens may be contacted for, or lured into providing, information or funds for a fraudulent purpose, and the ways to prevent the loss of funds or identity theft.  The director will be required to regularly review and update the notice to ensure that it contains the most current information on fraud and identity theft.

     The bill requires the Commissioner of Human Services, at a minimum, to distribute the notice to:  1) members of the public, upon request; and 2) each organization that is contracted by or receives State funding from the Department of Human Services (DHS) and that provides services to senior citizens 60 years of age or older, for dissemination by the organization to senior citizens in the course of business.  The bill further requires the commissioner to post a copy of the notice on the DHS website.