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Committee advances bill making gift card tampering a felony amid rise in organized retail crime
Summary
Senate Bill 130, presented by Senator Scott Mayden, would criminalize tampering with gift cards and add gift-card fraud to existing credit-card fraud statutes; the committee advanced the substitute unanimously.
The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously voted to advance Senate Bill 130 after testimony from Senator Scott Mayden and industry representatives describing escalating gift card tampering schemes.
Mayden told the committee the bill addresses “gift card scams and theft of gift card redemption information” that have affected communities in the Commonwealth, saying local police uncovered separate…
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