Bill Text: NY S01465 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Requires the implementation of an electronic benefit transfer system using industry-standard commercial electronic funds transfer technology.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-10 - REFERRED TO SOCIAL SERVICES [S01465 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S01465-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1465

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 10, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  SERRANO,  GONZALEZ, LIU -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Social
          Services

        AN  ACT to amend the social services law, in relation to implementing an
          electronic benefit transfer system

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

     1    Section  1. Section 95 of the social services law is amended by adding
     2  a new subdivision 12 to read as follows:
     3    12. (a) To the extent not inconsistent  with  federal  law  and  regu-
     4  lations,  not  later  than June twenty-first, two thousand twenty-seven,
     5  the office shall implement an electronic benefit transfer  system  using
     6  industry-standard   commercial  electronic  funds  transfer  technology,
     7  including, at a minimum, the use of EMV computer chip cards.
     8    (b) The office shall upgrade the electronic benefit system as required
     9  pursuant to paragraph (a) of this subdivision as soon as practicable.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00986-01-5
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