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Assembly Bill A5603

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Prohibits employers from putting social security numbers on checks, drafts or vouchers issued to employees

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2009-A5603 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Consumer Affairs And Protection
Law Section:
Labor

2009-A5603 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits employers from putting social security numbers on checks, drafts or vouchers issued to employees.

2009-A5603 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  5603

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 13, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. BOYLAND -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Consumer Affairs and Protection

AN ACT prohibiting any employer from issuing checks to  employees  which
  contain  a  person's  nine digit social security number, and directing
  employers to use certain identification numbers

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Notwithstanding any other law, rule, or regulation to the
contrary, no employer, including both public and private, located in the
state of New York, or who pays employees who work in the  state  of  New
York,  shall  issue  a  check,  draft  or  voucher  to an employee which
contains the employee's nine digit social security number.
  S 2. Notwithstanding any other law, rule or regulation to the  contra-
ry,  any  employer,  including  both  public and private, located in the
state of New York, or who pays employees who work in the  state  of  New
York, shall use either the last four digits of the person's social secu-
rity  number  or  separately  created numbers on any check issued to the
employee.
  S 3. A penalty of $500 will be charged to each employer per  violation
of section one of this act.
  S  4. This act shall take effect one year after the date it shall have
become a law.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD07925-02-9

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