S 2393: 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.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2393 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 17, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. PERSAUD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection 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: 1 Section 1. Section 519-a of the general business law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 4 to read as follows: 3 4. No hospital or health care provider shall keep a credit card on 4 file without obtaining written consent in the form of a signature from 5 the patient. Patients shall be advised in writing, using twelve-point 6 font or larger, at the time of paying for any services with a credit 7 card if the credit card information will be kept on file and if such 8 credit card information will be used to pay any balances on the account. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 10 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or 11 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of 12 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed 13 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