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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8662--A
IN SENATE
February 27, 2024
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Introduced by Sens. FELDER, SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Social Services
-- 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 include fraud detection for unau-
thorized transactions
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.
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