Article: Identity theft prevention bill passes in California Senate

Molly Bechtel
University Wire
05-25-2006
(The California Aggie) (U-WIRE) DAVIS, Calif. -- Requiring retailers and financial institutions to remove credit card and bank account numbers from credit card transaction receipts at stores and banks, legislation was unanimously passed by the state Senate last week to decrease the rate of identity theft throughout the state.

Senator Debra Bowen (D-Redondo Beach) has authored many of the state's identity theft prevention laws and wrote Senate Bill 1699 in order to support a current state law that already requires credit card numbers to be removed from customer receipts.

Bowen said there is a risk of identity theft if credit card numbers are printed in ...

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