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Assembly Bill A8759

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Imposes fines on businesses which are found to have card skimmers operating at such business

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2025-A8759 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Consumer Affairs And Protection
Law Section:
General Business Law
Laws Affected:
Add §390-f, Gen Bus L

2025-A8759 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Imposes fines of up to ten thousand dollars per hour on businesses which are found to have skimming devices operating at such business for more than one hour.

2025-A8759 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8759
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 2, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. JACKSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Consumer Affairs and Protection
 
 AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to imposing  fines
   on  businesses which are found to have card skimmers operating at such
   business
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
 390-f to read as follows:
   § 390-F. SKIMMING PREVENTION. 1. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, THE
 TERM  "SKIMMING"  SHALL  BE  DEFINED  AS OBTAINING A CONSUMER'S PERSONAL
 IDENTIFYING INFORMATION AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION  190.77
 OF  THE  PENAL  LAW  THROUGH  THE  USE OF A SKIMMER DEVICE AS DEFINED IN
 SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION 190.85 OF THE PENAL LAW.
   2. WHENEVER A SKIMMING DEVICE IS INSTALLED AT A PLACE OF BUSINESS  FOR
 MORE  THAN  ONE HOUR AND SKIMMING OCCURS, THE PERSON, FIRM, PARTNERSHIP,
 ASSOCIATION  OR  CORPORATION  WHO  PERFORMED  SALES  TRANSACTIONS  WHICH
 RESULTED  IN SKIMMING OCCURRING SHALL BE ASSESSED A CIVIL PENALTY NOT TO
 EXCEED TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS PER HOUR THE SKIMMING DEVICE WAS INSTALLED.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13263-01-5

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