NY State Senate Bill 2021-S3847

Senate Bill S3847

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Requires the department of labor to provide credit monitoring and identity theft surveillance services to certain individuals whose information may have been disclosed inappropriately

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Jan 31, 2021	referred to labor

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2021-S3847 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A4171
Current Committee:: Senate Labor
Law Section:: Labor
Versions Introduced in 2019-2020 Legislative Session:: S8671, A10949

2021-S3847 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2021-S3847 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                
 
BILL NUMBER: S3847

SPONSOR: SERINO
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act in relation to requiring the department of labor to provide cred-
it monitoring and identity theft surveillance services to certain indi-
viduals whose information may have been disclosed inappropriately

 
PURPOSE:

The purpose of this bill is to require the Department of Labor to
provide credit monitoring and identity surveillance services to certain
individuals whose information may have been disclosed inappropriately.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 of the bill requires the Department of Labor to provide at
least five years of credit monitoring and identity theft surveillance
services to all eligible individuals whose personal information may have
been inappropriately disclosed by the department. Such credit monitoring

services shall be provided at no cost to the eligible individual.  For
the purpose of this act, "eligible individual" shall mean any person who
received a letter from the Department of Labor dated March 31, 2020,
April 2, 2020, April 8, 2020, and April 21, 2020 which related to unem-
ployment benefits.

Section 2 states that this act shall take effect immediately.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

In late April 2020, over 200 New Yorkers had their personal information
compromised due to a glitch at the Department of Labor.  The Department
of Labor is offering one year of free protection to these individuals,
but this legislation would extend those protections for a full five
years to impacted individuals. The information that was compromised by
errors at the Department of Labor is extremely detrimental to an indi-
vidual's identity. It is critical that these protections are extended at
no cost.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2020: S.8671 Referred to Rules

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

TBD

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect immediately.

2021-S3847 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3847
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 31, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  SERINO, JORDAN -- read twice and ordered printed,
   and when printed to be committed to the Committee 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:
 
   Section 1. The department of labor shall provide at least  five  years
 of  credit  monitoring  and  identity theft surveillance services to all
 eligible individuals whose personal information may have  been  inappro-
 priately  disclosed  by  the department. Such credit monitoring services
 shall be provided at  no  cost  to  the  eligible  individual.  For  the
 purposes  of  this  act, "eligible individual" shall mean any person who
 received a letter from the department of labor  dated  March  31,  2020,
 April  2, 2020, April 8, 2020, and April 21, 2020 which related to unem-
 ployment benefits.
   § 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

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