Bill Text: NY A09269 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires electronic benefit transfer systems to allow for benefit recipients to cancel or lock a credit or debit card when fraud has been suspected or reported; directs that any interactive voice response system associated with an electronic benefit transfer system which benefit recipients may call for support or assistance shall include an option for benefit recipients to report fraud and cancel, lock or unlock their electronic benefit transfer credit or debit card.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-3)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-06 - RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY [A09269 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A09269-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9269--B IN ASSEMBLY February 23, 2024 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BERGER, DAVILA, CUNNINGHAM, MAHER, GLICK, HYND- MAN, SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Social Services -- 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 requiring elec- tronic benefit transfer systems to provide for benefit recipients to be able to cancel, lock or unlock a credit or debit card associated with electronic benefit transfer services 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 interactive voice response system associated with an electron- 4 ic benefit transfer system which benefit recipients may call for support 5 or assistance shall include an option for benefit recipients to report 6 fraud and cancel such benefit recipient's electronic benefit transfer 7 credit or debit card permanently or lock such benefit recipient's elec- 8 tronic benefit transfer credit or debit card indefinitely. Provided, 9 further, any interactive voice response system associated with an elec- 10 tronic benefit transfer system which benefit recipients may call for 11 support or assistance shall also allow for benefit recipients to lock 12 such benefit recipient's credit or debit card for out of state purchases 13 only or for online purchases only. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect six months after it shall have become 15 a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14361-13-4
