Harrisburg, Pennsylvania — The Pennsylvania Food Merchants Association (PFMA), a statewide trade association advocating for the retail food industry, commends the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for unanimously passing legislation yesterday that would update and upgrade Pennsylvania law to help prevent, eliminate and punish the use of fraudulent credit-debit card devices.
HB1918, sponsored by Representative Kristin Phillips-Hill (R-York), would make skimmer and scanner devices and their use illegal. It would also create strong penalties for the using these devices. The first use of a skimmer or scanner to obtain information from an encoded card, computer chip or magnetic strip would be punished as a third-degree felony, while a second offense would make it a second-degree felony.