Relates to prohibiting consumer reporting agencies from requiring or requesting a copy of a consumer's social security card when furnishing consumer reports or investigative consumer reports to third parties.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8219
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
June 2, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. SEPULVEDA -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to prohibiting
consumer reporting agencies from requiring or requesting certain
consumer information
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Paragraph 1 of subdivision (t) of section 380-a of the
2 general business law, as added by chapter 441 of the laws of 2014, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 (1) a social security number [or a copy of a social security card
5 issued by the social security administration];
6 § 2. Section 380-v of the general business law, as relettered by chap-
7 ter 441 of the laws of 2014, is relettered section 380-w and a new
8 section 380-v is added to read as follows:
9 § 380-v. Limitations on requests for identifying documentation.
10 Consumer reporting agencies shall not require or request a copy of a
11 consumer's social security card. For the purposes of proper identifica-
12 tion of a consumer, a consumer reporting agency may request or require
13 such consumer's social security number.
14 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
15 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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