Bill Text: NY S03040 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Includes the impersonation of a doctor of medicine as criminal impersonation in the second degree, regardless of whether a person suffers harm from the medical advice or treatment.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CODES [S03040 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S03040-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3040
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 1, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to including  the  impersona-
          tion  of  a doctor of medicine as criminal impersonation in the second
          degree
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1. Section 190.25 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 5 to read as follows:
     3    5. Impersonates a doctor of medicine  and,  in  so  doing,  the  actor
     4  provides  medical  advice  or  treatment to another person as a patient,
     5  regardless of whether or not the other  person  suffers  harm  from  the
     6  medical advice or treatment.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
     8  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09140-01-9