Bill Text: NY S07823 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires the implementation of an electronic benefit transfer system using industry-standard commercial electronic funds transfer technology.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-04 - referred to social services [S07823 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S07823-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7823--B 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE December 20, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SERRANO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules -- recommitted to the Committee on Social Services in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to implementing an electronic benefit transfer system The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 95 of the social services law is amended by adding 2 a new subdivision 12 to read as follows: 3 12. (a) To the extent not inconsistent with federal law and regu- 4 lations, not later than June twenty-first, two thousand twenty-six, the 5 office shall implement an electronic benefit transfer system using 6 industry-standard commercial electronic funds transfer technology, 7 including, at a minimum, the use of EMV computer chip cards. 8 (b) The office shall upgrade the electronic benefit system as required 9 pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subdivision as soon as practicable. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08802-06-4
