Requires electronic benefit transfer systems to allow for benefit recipients to provide certain services when fraud has been suspected or reported, the official text

S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                    750
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  FELDER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to requiring  elec-
   tronic  benefit  transfer systems to provide for benefit recipients to
   be able to cancel, lock or unlock a card  associated  with  electronic
   benefit  transfer services; and to amend a chapter of the laws of 2024
   amending the social services  law  relating  to  requiring  electronic
   benefit  transfer systems to provide for benefit recipients to be able
   to cancel, lock or unlock a credit or debit card associated with elec-
   tronic benefit transfer services, as  proposed  in  legislative  bills
   numbers S.8662-A and A.9269-B, in relation to the effectiveness there-
   of
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Paragraph (c) of subdivision  1  of  section  21-a  of  the
 social  services law, as added by a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending
 the social services law relating to requiring electronic benefit  trans-
 fer systems to provide for benefit recipients to be able to cancel, lock
 or  unlock  a  credit  or  debit card associated with electronic benefit
 transfer services, as proposed in legislative bills  numbers  S.  8662-A
 and A.  9269-B, is amended to read as follows:
   (c) Any interactive voice response system associated with an electron-
 ic benefit transfer system which benefit recipients may call for support
 or  assistance shall include an option for benefit recipients to [report
 fraud and] cancel such benefit recipient's electronic  benefit  transfer
 [credit or debit] card permanently or lock OR UNLOCK such benefit recip-
 ient's electronic benefit transfer [credit or debit] card [indefinitely.
 Provided, further, any interactive voice response system associated with
 an  electronic benefit transfer system which benefit recipients may call
 for support or assistance shall also allow  for  benefit  recipients  to

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 lock  such  benefit  recipient's  credit  or debit card for out of state
 purchases only or for online purchases only].
   §  2.  Section  2 of a chapter of the laws of 2024 amending the social
 services law relating to requiring electronic benefit  transfer  systems
 to provide for benefit recipients to be able to cancel, lock or unlock a
 credit  or  debit  card  associated  with  electronic  benefit  transfer
 services, as proposed in legislative bills  numbers  S.  8662-A  and  A.
 9269-B, is amended to read as follows:
   §  2.  This act shall take effect [six months] ONE YEAR after it shall
 have become a law.
   § 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided,  however,  that
 section  one  of  this act shall take effect on the same date and in the
 same manner as a chapter  of  the  laws  of  2024  amending  the  social
 services  law  relating to requiring electronic benefit transfer systems
 to provide for benefit recipients to be able to cancel, lock or unlock a
 credit  or  debit  card  associated  with  electronic  benefit  transfer
 services,  as  proposed  in  legislative  bills numbers S. 8662-A and A.
 9269-B, takes effect.