Requires the department of labor to provide at least five years of credit monitoring and identity theft surveillance services to certain individuals whose information may have been disclosed inappropriately.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4171
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 1, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. SCHMITT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Labor
AN ACT in relation to requiring the department of labor to provide cred-
it monitoring and identity theft surveillance services to certain
individuals whose information may have been disclosed inappropriately
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The department of labor shall provide at least five years
2 of credit monitoring and identity theft surveillance services to all
3 eligible individuals whose personal information may have been inappro-
4 priately disclosed by the department. Such credit monitoring services
5 shall be provided at no cost to the eligible individual. For the
6 purposes of this act, "eligible individual" shall mean any person who
7 received a letter from the department of labor dated March 31, 2020,
8 April 2, 2020, April 8, 2020, and April 21, 2020 which related to unem-
9 ployment benefits.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06895-01-1