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
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