Bill Text: NY A06151 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Makes the falsification of COVID-19 vaccination records a crime as part of computer tampering in the third degree which is a class E felony.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to health [A06151 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A06151-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6151--A 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 10, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. FAHY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to making the falsification of COVID-19 vaccination records a crime The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 170.00 of the penal law, as 2 amended by chapter 514 of the laws of 1986, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 1. "Written instrument" means any instrument or article, including 5 computer data or a computer program, containing written or printed 6 matter or the equivalent thereof, used for the purpose of reciting, 7 embodying, conveying or recording information, or constituting a symbol 8 or evidence of value, right, privilege or identification, which is capa- 9 ble of being used to the advantage or disadvantage of some person. For 10 the purposes of this article, a card provided to a person by a vaccine 11 provider indicating the date a person received a vaccination against 12 COVID-19 as well as the type of vaccine and its lot number shall be 13 considered a written instrument. 14 § 2. Section 156.25 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 89 of the 15 laws of 1993, subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 376 of the laws of 16 1997, is amended to read as follows: 17 § 156.25 Computer tampering in the third degree. 18 A person is guilty of computer tampering in the third degree when he 19 or she commits the crime of computer tampering in the fourth degree and: 20 1. he or she does so with an intent to commit or attempt to commit or 21 further the commission of any felony; or 22 2. he or she has been previously convicted of any crime under this 23 article or subdivision eleven of section 165.15 of this chapter; or EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07421-07-1A. 6151--A 2 1 3. he or she intentionally alters in any manner or destroys computer 2 material; or 3 4. he or she intentionally alters in any manner or destroys computer 4 data or a computer program so as to cause damages in an aggregate amount 5 exceeding one thousand dollars; or 6 5. he or she intentionally alters in any manner or destroys computer 7 material indicating that a person did or did not receive a vaccination 8 against COVID-19. 9 Computer tampering in the third degree is a class E felony. 10 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.