Bill Text: NY S04941 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires banking institutions to accept the Dominican consular identification card, issued by the consulate general of the Dominican Republic, as a valid form of identification for all banking transactions; requires the department of financial services to recommend other forms of ID by foreign nationals living in NYS required, if any, to supplement verification needed by banking services in order to meet standing rules, regulations and laws with regard to accessing banking services.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2017-03-03 - REFERRED TO BANKS [S04941 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S04941-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4941
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                      March 3, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  DIAZ  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Banks
        AN ACT to amend the banking law, in relation to requiring banking insti-
          tutions to accept the Dominican consular identification card issued by
          the consulate general of the Dominican Republic as  a  valid  form  of
          identification for all banking transactions
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The banking law is amended by adding a new section  9-x  to
     2  read as follows:
     3    § 9-x. Dominican identification card, valid form of identification. 1.
     4  Every banking institution shall accept as a valid form of identification
     5  for all banking transactions the Dominican identification card issued by
     6  the consulate general of the Dominican Republic.
     7    2.  For  the  purposes of this section, the term "banking institution"
     8  shall mean and  include  all  banks,  trust  companies,  savings  banks,
     9  savings and loan associations, licensed foreign banks and credit unions.
    10    3.  The department shall review the legitimacy of identification cards
    11  issued by foreign governments to their nationals living in the state and
    12  recommend which ones, if any, should be accepted by banking institutions
    13  in    the  state as proof of identification by the identification holder
    14  for the purpose of engaging in banking services.
    15    4. The department shall recommend:
    16    (a) other required forms of identification by foreign nationals living
    17  in the state, if any,  to  supplement  verification  needed  by  banking
    18  services  in  order  to  meet  standing rules, regulations, or laws with
    19  regards to accessing banking services;
    20    (b) any legislative measures necessary to facilitate access to banking
    21  services by foreign nationals who are currently considered  undocumented
    22  immigrants;
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    (c)  any  measures,  in the form of rules, regulations or legislation,
     2  necessary to ensure that undocumented immigrants who can  provide  proof
     3  that  they  have applied for the new federal immigrant status classified
     4  as Registered Provisional Immigrant, hereinafter "RPI", have  access  to
     5  banking  services while such persons wait for official federal identifi-
     6  cation; and
     7    (d) a timeframe for requiring banking services to accept  the  foreign
     8  identification and temporary proof of applying for RPI to access banking
     9  services  and whether the foreign issued identification shall be part of
    10  the temporary identification requirements that can  be  requested  by  a
    11  banking institution.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.