Bill Text: NY A02694 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that no issuer of a credit card shall send unsolicited, blank checks to a credit card member residing in New York state.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [A02694 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02694-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2694

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 26, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BLUMENCRANZ -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection

        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to the unsolicited
          sending of blank checks by issuers of credit cards

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Section  520  of  the  general business law is amended by
     2  adding a new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
     3    (10) No issuer of a credit card shall send unsolicited,  blank  checks
     4  to a card member residing in New York state.
     5    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
     6  have become a law.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06893-01-3