Bill Text: NY A08700 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Includes in the crime of computer tampering in the third degree when someone enters information to falsify COVID-19 vaccination records.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2022-02-24 - signed chap.24 [A08700 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A08700-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8700 IN ASSEMBLY January 10, 2022 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the crime of falsifying COVID-19 vaccination records The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 156.25 of the penal law, as added 2 by a chapter of the laws of 2021 amending the penal law relating to 3 making the falsification of COVID-19 vaccination records a crime, as 4 proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 4516-C and A. 7536-B, is 5 amended to read as follows: 6 5. he intentionally enters or alters in any manner or destroys comput- 7 er material indicating that a person did or did not receive a vaccina- 8 tion against COVID-19. 9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same 10 manner as a chapter of the laws of 2021 amending the penal law relating 11 to making the falsification of COVID-19 vaccination records a crime, as 12 proposed in legislative bills numbers S. 4516-C and A. 7536-B, takes 13 effect. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD07421-11-2
