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S3795Senate2015-2016 Session

Bans the use of employer data information

Sponsor James Sanders Jr.SD-10Affects Public Safety & Consumer Affairs
Status
Stricken
Impact
Pending
Passage
Pending

Bill progress

Step 2 of 7

In committee · Consumer Protection

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Primary sponsor
James Sanders Jr.

Senator · Senate District 10

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History

  1. Recommit, enacting clause stricken
  2. Referred to consumer protection

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Sponsor's memo

BILL NUMBER:S3795

Title of bill

An act to amend the general business law, in relation to the sale and use of employment information

Purpose or general idea of bill

no consumer reporting agency or any subsidiary thereof shall sell or resell, or offer for sale or resale or distribute employment information to any principal creditor, as that term is defined in subdivision three of section six hundred of this chapter, or other debt collector without verifying that such sale, resale, or distribution was disclosed to the consumer to whom such employment information pertains without written consumer consent in a separate stand alone document

Summary of specific provisions

bans the use of employer data information

Justification

employment information shall include, but not be limited to, payroll and earnings information, hours worked, consumer history and health insurance information.

Prior legislative history

New Bill

Fiscal implications

none

Effective date

this act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after it shall have become a law

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