STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8700

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 10, 2022
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        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.
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