New York S 7426: Relates to the unlawful use of a New York driver's license or identification card

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S07426 Summary:

BILL NOS07426 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORHOYLMAN-SIGAL

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §399-ss, Gen Bus L; amd §65-b, ABC L

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Relates to the unlawful use of a New York driver's license or identification card.

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BILL NOS07426 

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04/16/2025REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 7426

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 April 16, 2025
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 Introduced by Sen. HOYLMAN-SIGAL -- read twice and ordered printed, and
 when printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection

 AN ACT to amend the general business law and the alcoholic beverage
 control law, in relation to the unlawful use of a New York state driv-
 er's license or identification card

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

 1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
 2 399-ss to read as follows:
 3 § 399-ss. Unlawful use of a New York state driver's license or iden-
 4 tification card. 1. No person, business, firm, partnership, association,
 5 or corporation, not including the state or its political subdivisions,
 6 may scan the machine-readable zone of an individual's New York state
 7 driver's license or identification card as defined in section four
 8 hundred ninety of the vehicle and traffic law, except for the following
 9 purposes:
 10 a. to verify authenticity of the driver's license or identification
 11 card or to verify the identity of the individual if the individual pays
 12 for goods or services with a method other than cash, returns an item, or
 13 requests a refund or exchange;
 14 b. to verify the individual's age when providing age-restricted goods
 15 or services to the individual;
 16 c. to prevent fraud or other criminal activity if the individual
 17 returns an item or requests a refund or an exchange and the business
 18 uses a fraud prevention service company or system. Information collected
 19 by scanning an individual's driver's license or identification card
 20 pursuant to this subdivision shall be limited to the following informa-
 21 tion from the individual:
 22 (1) name;
 23 (2) address;
 24 (3) date of birth; and

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD07726-01-5

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 1 (4) driver's license number or identification card number;
 2 d. to record, retain, or transmit information as required by state or
 3 federal law;
 4 e. to transmit information to a consumer reporting agency, financial
 5 institution, or debt collector to be used as permitted by the federal
 6 Fair Credit Reporting Act, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, or the Fair Debt
 7 Collection Practices Act; or
 8 f. to record, retain, or transmit information by a covered entity
 9 governed by the medical privacy and security rules issued by the federal
 10 Department of Health and Human Services, Parts 160 and 164 of the Code
 11 of Federal Regulations, established pursuant to the Health Insurance
 12 Portability and Availability Act of 1996.
 13 2. No person, business, firm, partnership, association, or corpo-
 14 ration, not including the state or its political subdivisions, shall
 15 retain any information obtained from scanning an individual's New York
 16 state driver's license or identification card, except as permitted in
 17 subdivision one of this section.
 18 3. No person, business, firm, partnership, association, or corpo-
 19 ration, not including the state or its political subdivisions, shall
 20 sell or disseminate to a third party any information obtained under this
 21 section for any purpose, including but not limited to, marketing, adver-
 22 tising, or promotional activities, except as permitted in subdivision
 23 one of this section.
 24 4. A person, business, firm, partnership, association, or corporation,
 25 not including the state or its political subdivisions, covered under
 26 this section shall make reasonable efforts, through