Bill Text: NY A07536 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 7536 (Prior Session Legislation)

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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
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                                         7536--A
                                                                   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  --  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

        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 and the closing paragraph of section 156.25 of  the
    16  penal law, as amended by chapter 89 of the laws of 1993, are amended and
    17  a new subdivision 5 is added to read as follows:
    18    4.  he intentionally alters in any manner or destroys computer data or
    19  a computer program so as to cause damages in an aggregate amount exceed-
    20  ing one thousand dollars[.]; or

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11314-02-1

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     1    5. he intentionally alters in any manner or destroys computer material
     2  indicating that a person did or did not receive  a  vaccination  against
     3  COVID-19.
     4    Computer tampering in the third degree is a class E felony.
     5    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.