Assembly Bill A8197

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires signage warning about EBT/SNAP skimming and mandates chip-enabled point-of-sale systems for SNAP transactions

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    • In Committee Senate
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    • Passed Assembly
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  • Delivered to Governor
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2025-A8197 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Social Services
Law Section:
Social Services Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §95, Soc Serv L; add §397-c, Gen Bus L

2025-A8197 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires signage warning about EBT/SNAP skimming at all retail food stores; mandates chip-enabled point-of-sale systems for SNAP transactions.

2025-A8197 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8197
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 5, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of A. NOVAKHOV, BROOK-KRASNY, CHANG -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on Social Services
 
 AN ACT to amend the social services law and the general business law, in
   relation to requiring signage  warning  about  EBT/SNAP  skimming  and
   mandating chip-enabled point-of-sale systems for SNAP transactions

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Legislative findings. The legislature finds that Electronic
 Benefit Transfer (EBT) and  Supplemental  Nutrition  Assistance  Program
 (SNAP)  recipients  are increasingly at risk of benefit theft due to the
 use of illegal skimming devices installed  on  point-of-sale  terminals.
 These devices compromise the security of magnetic stripe cards and cause
 significant  financial  harm to vulnerable New Yorkers. To mitigate this
 threat, it is necessary to raise consumer  awareness  through  mandatory
 signage  and to modernize payment systems by requiring chip-enabled card
 readers in all retail establishments that accept SNAP.
   § 2. Section 95 of the social services law is amended by adding a  new
 subdivision 12 to read as follows:
   12.  (A) ALL RETAIL FOOD STORES, AND AUTHORIZED SNAP RETAILERS LOCATED
 IN THE STATE SHALL PROMINENTLY DISPLAY A SIGN AT EACH PUBLIC ENTRANCE TO
 THE STORE WARNING CUSTOMERS ABOUT THE POTENTIAL  FOR  SNAP/EBT  SKIMMING
 FRAUD.
   (B)  SUCH  SIGN  SHALL BE AT LEAST EIGHT AND ONE-HALF INCHES BY ELEVEN
 INCHES, WRITTEN IN PLAIN LANGUAGE, AND INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING OR SUBSTAN-
 TIALLY SIMILAR MESSAGE:
 WARNING: EBT AND SNAP BENEFITS MAY BE AT RISK OF THEFT  THROUGH  ILLEGAL
 SKIMMING DEVICES.
 DO  NOT  SWIPE  YOUR CARD IF THE CARD READER APPEARS DAMAGED OR TAMPERED
 WITH.
 USE CHIP-ENABLED TERMINALS WHEN AVAILABLE. REPORT SUSPECTED FRAUD TO THE
 NYS EBT CUSTOMER SERVICE AT 1-888-328-6399.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11692-01-5
              

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