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                                    919
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. BERGER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Social Services
 
 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.