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Assembly Bill A8460

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Prohibits hospitals and health care providers from storing credit card information without consent

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2025-A8460 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2393
Current Committee:
Assembly Health
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §519-a, Gen Bus L

2025-A8460 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits hospitals and health care providers from storing credit card information without signed written consent and requires disclosure if such information could be used to pay balances.

2025-A8460 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8460
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 16, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CUNNINGHAM  -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Health
 
 AN ACT to amend the general business law,  in  relation  to  prohibiting
   hospitals  and health care providers from storing credit card informa-
   tion without consent
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  519-a  of the general business law is amended by
 adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
   4. NO HOSPITAL OR HEALTH CARE PROVIDER SHALL KEEP  A  CREDIT  CARD  ON
 FILE  WITHOUT  OBTAINING WRITTEN CONSENT IN THE FORM OF A SIGNATURE FROM
 THE PATIENT. PATIENTS SHALL BE ADVISED IN  WRITING,  USING  TWELVE-POINT
 FONT  OR  LARGER,  AT  THE TIME OF PAYING FOR ANY SERVICES WITH A CREDIT
 CARD IF THE CREDIT CARD INFORMATION WILL BE KEPT ON  FILE  AND  IF  SUCH
 CREDIT CARD INFORMATION WILL BE USED TO PAY ANY BALANCES ON THE ACCOUNT.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary  for  the  implementation  of
 this  act  on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
 on or before such effective date.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05869-02-5

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