New York S 8918: Requires electronic benefit transfer systems to include automatic credit or debit card cancellation when fraudulent activity has been reported

Bill Text

STATE OF NEW YORK
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8918
IN SENATE
March 27, 2024
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Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Social Services
AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring elec-
tronic benefit transfer systems to include automatic credit or debit
card cancellation when fraudulent activity has been reported
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 21-a of the social services law is
2 amended by adding a new paragraph (c) to read as follows:
3 (c) Any electronic benefit transfer system implemented pursuant to
4 this section shall include the automatic cancellation of an electronic
5 benefit transfer credit or debit card associated with such electronic
6 benefit transfer system when a benefit recipient reports fraudulent
7 activity relating to such credit or debit card. Such automatic cancella-
8 tion shall occur at the time a benefit recipient completes the procedure
9 set forth in paragraph (c) of subdivision two of this section, and at
10 such time a benefit recipient may apply for the replacement of a lost or
11 stolen credit or debit card pursuant to paragraph (d) of subdivision two
12 of this section.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
14 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
15 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
16 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
17 on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in (underscored) is new; matter in bracketsitalics
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD14824-01-4