Bill Text: NY A07536 | 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: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-3)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2021-06-10 - substituted by s4516c [A07536 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A07536-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7536--B R. R. 260 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY May 13, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ, GALEF, CYMBROWITZ, SILLITTI, ENGLE- BRIGHT, ZINERMAN, DAVILA, FAHY, MORINELLO, LAWLER, McDONOUGH, SANTA- BARBARA -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes -- reported and referred to the Committee on Rules -- ordered to a third reading, passed by Assembly and delivered to the Senate, recalled from the Senate, vote reconsidered, bill amended, ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the special order of third reading -- again amended on special order of third reading, ordered reprinted, retain- ing its place on the special order of third reading 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, the type of vaccine and its lot number, and bearing a govern- 13 ment logo or other indication that it is created by a governmental 14 instrumentality, shall be considered a written instrument. 15 § 2. Subdivision 4 of section 156.25 of the penal law, as amended by 16 chapter 89 of the laws of 1993, is amended and a new subdivision 5 is 17 added to read as follows: EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11314-03-1A. 7536--B 2 1 4. he intentionally alters in any manner or destroys computer data or 2 a computer program so as to cause damages in an aggregate amount exceed- 3 ing one thousand dollars; or 4 5. he intentionally alters in any manner or destroys computer material 5 indicating that a person did or did not receive a vaccination against 6 COVID-19. 7 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
