Establishes the New York state digital payment application agency acceptance task force to examine the possibility of offering such as a payment option for all moneys collected by state agencies from individuals.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1650
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 16, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. VANEL, DICKENS, ORTIZ, RIVERA, BLAKE,
JEAN-PIERRE, D'URSO, LAWRENCE, RAIA, LAVINE, PICHARDO, MOSLEY, BARRON,
BICHOTTE, GIGLIO, GOODELL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COOK,
DAVILA, LUPARDO, PALMESANO -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Governmental Operations
AN ACT establishing the New York state digital payment application agen-
cy acceptance task force
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. 1. The department of financial services is hereby author-
2 ized to establish the New York state digital payment application agency
3 acceptance task force to provide the governor and the legislature with
4 information on the potential effects of state agencies accepting
5 payments via digital payment applications.
6 2. The task force shall be comprised of:
7 a. two members appointed by the governor;
8 b. two members appointed by the temporary president of the senate;
9 c. two members appointed by the speaker of the assembly;
10 d. one member appointed by the minority leader of the senate;
11 e. one member appointed by the minority leader of the assembly; and
12 f. two members appointed by the superintendent of financial services.
13 3. The task force shall:
14 a. identify what state agencies collect payments from individuals,
15 what such payments are collected for and through what mechanism such
16 payments are currently permitted to be made through;
17 b. examine and evaluate the availability, effectiveness, and trustwor-
18 thiness of digital payment applications including but not limited to,
19 Venmo, PayPal, Zelle, Google Wallet, Squarecash, and Applepay;
20 c. identify any state or federal agency that currently accepts digital
21 payment application payments and evaluate the effectiveness of such; and
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 d. make recommendations on how to effectively implement the practice
2 of digital payment application acceptance by state agencies.
3 4. Such task force shall collaborate with state and city of New York
4 agencies including, but not limited to, the department of taxation and
5 finance and the department of finance of the city of New York.
6 5. The department of financial services shall submit a report, on or
7 before January 1, 2021, to the governor and the legislature of its find-
8 ings, conclusions and recommendations, and legislative and regulatory
9 proposals deemed necessary to implement such recommendations.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
