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S01256 Summary:

BILL NOS01256B
 
SAME ASNo Same As
 
SPONSORCOMRIE
 
COSPNSRPARKER
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Amd 380-d, Gen Bus L
 
Requires that consumer reporting agencies contact consumers when a request is made for their consumer reports; requires consumer reporting agencies to provide the consumer with information pertaining to the entity that requested the consumer report.
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S01256 Actions:

BILL NOS01256B
 
01/11/2023REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION
05/11/2023AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO CONSUMER PROTECTION
05/11/2023PRINT NUMBER 1256A
06/05/2023AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CONSUMER PROTECTION
06/05/2023PRINT NUMBER 1256B
01/03/2024REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION
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S01256 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         1256--B
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 11, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sens.  COMRIE, PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when  printed  to  be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Consumer
          Protection -- 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  general  business law, in relation to requiring
          consumer reporting agencies to contact  consumers  when  requests  are
          made for their consumer reports
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Section 380-d of the general business  law  is  amended  by
     2  adding a new subdivision (a-1) to read as follows:
     3    (a-1)  Every consumer reporting agency shall, upon the occurrence of a
     4  consumer report requested on any consumer, notify such consumer  of  the
     5  request  by  mail  or  electronic  mail to the extent practicable.  Once
     6  notified, the consumer may contact the  consumer  reporting  agency  who
     7  shall provide, upon the request of such consumer, the name of the person
     8  or entity that requested the report, the nature of the request, the date
     9  of  the  request,  and the amount of any potential loan relating to such
    10  request, to the greatest extent practicable. Such consumer shall provide
    11  the consumer reporting agency sufficient proof of identification  pursu-
    12  ant to subdivision (t) of section three hundred eighty-a of this article
    13  before  the consumer may receive any information in accordance with this
    14  subdivision.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    16  have become a law.
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03419-04-3
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