Bill Text: NY S07759 | 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: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-26 - SUBSTITUTED BY A8700 [S07759 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S07759-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7759 IN SENATE January 11, 2022 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KAPLAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules 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