Bill Text: NY S06323 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Requires that businesses that provide consumers with online accounts to access services permit consumers who have been victims of identity theft to recover such accounts using proper identification if the business has a physical presence in this state.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2024-03-06 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [S06323 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-S06323-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6323--B 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN SENATE April 14, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sens. GONZALEZ, WEBB -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Internet and Technology -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on Internet and Technology in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to recovery of online accounts The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section 2 394-i to read as follows: 3 § 394-i. Recovery of online accounts. A person or business that 4 provides a consumer an online account to access services shall, if a 5 consumer cannot access their online account due to a theft of their 6 identity as provided in section 190.78, 190.79, 190.80 or 190.80-a of 7 the penal law or unlawful possession of their personal identification as 8 provided in section 190.81, 190.82 or 190.83 of the penal law has 9 occurred, upon request by such consumer, provide an opportunity to prove 10 their identity in person using a physical proof of identification in the 11 form of one of the following: (1) a valid passport issued by the United 12 States government or another country; or (2) a valid driver's license or 13 non-driver's identification card issued by this or another state, the 14 federal government, any United States territory, commonwealth or 15 possession, or the District of Columbia, bearing the consumer's name, 16 photograph and date of birth, to recover their online account and 17 restore access thereto, provided that the person or business providing 18 such online account has a physical presence and at least one retail 19 location within this state. 20 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09006-05-3
