NY State Senate Bill 2025-S750

Senate Bill S750

2025-2026 Legislative Session

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

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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
Delivered to Governor
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	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
Jan 13, 2025	ordered to third reading cal.25
Jan 08, 2025	referred to rules

Votes

- Jan 13, 2025 - Rules Committee Vote
  S750
  
  21
  
  Aye
  
  0
  
  Nay
  
  0
  
  Aye with Reservations
  
  0
  
  Absent
  
  0
  
  Excused
  
  0
  
  Abstained
  - - Rules Committee Vote: Jan 13, 2025
      
      aye (21)
      
      Addabbo Jr.
      
      Bailey
      
      Comrie
      
      Fernandez
      
      Gallivan
      
      Gianaris
      
      Griffo
      
      Harckham
      
      Helming
      
      Hoylman-Sigal
      
      Krueger
      
      Lanza
      
      Liu
      
      Mayer
      
      Myrie
      
      O'Mara
      
      Ortt
      
      Parker
      
      Sepúlveda
      
      Stec
      
      Stewart-Cousins

2025-S750 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A919
Law Section:: Social Services Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §21-a, Soc Serv L; amd §2, Chap of 2024 (as proposed in S.8662-A & A.9269-B)

2025-S750 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires electronic benefit transfer systems to allow for benefit recipients to cancel, lock or unlock a card associated with electronic benefit transfer services when fraud has been suspected or reported; amends the effectiveness thereof.

2025-S750 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S750

SPONSOR: FELDER
 
TITLE OF BILL:

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 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, in relation to the effectiveness thereof

 
PURPOSE:

This chapter amendment clarifies provisions of L.2024,c.487 regarding
electronic benefit transfer systems.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

This amendment modifies the underlying chapter to address electronic
benefit transfer (EBT) systems, specifically requiring these systems to
enable benefit recipients to cancel, lock, or unlock their EBT cards.

Subsection 1(c) makes the following changes to the underlying chapter:
1) It removes the option for EBT benefit recipients to report fraud
through any interactive voice response (IVR) system associated with
electronic benefit transfer services; 2) It stipulates that any IVR
system for electronic benefit transfers must allow recipients to perma-
nently cancel, lock, and unlock their EBT cards; 3) It eliminates refer-
ences to EBT cards as credit or debit cards, clarifying that EBT cards
are neither; and 4) It removes the provision that allowed recipients to
lock their cards for out-of-state or online purchases only through an
IVR system connected to the electronic benefit transfer system.

Additionally, Section 2 of the underlying chapter changes the effective
date from six months to one year after the law is enacted.

 
EXISTING LAW:

None.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

This legislation is a negotiated change to the underlying chapter.

 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

Chapter amendment to Chapter 487 of the Laws of 2024. S.8662-A passed
the Senate in June 2024 and A.9269-B passed the Assembly in April 2024.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:

None.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
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
to require electronic benefit transfer systems to allow benefit recipi-
ents to cancel, lock, or unlock a card associated with electronic bene-
fit transfer services, as proposed in legislative bills S. 8662-A and A.
9269-B.

2025-S750 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    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.

                                                            LBD02709-01-5
 S. 750                              2

 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.

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