Assembly Bill A8700

Signed By Governor
2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to the crime of falsifying COVID-19 vaccination records

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-A8700 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7759
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §156.25, Pen L (as proposed in S.4516-C & A.7536-B)

2021-A8700 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes in the crime of computer tampering in the third degree when someone enters information to falsify COVID-19 vaccination records.

2021-A8700 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8700
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             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:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision 5 of section 156.25 of the penal law, as added
 by a chapter of the laws of 2021 amending  the  penal  law  relating  to
 making  the  falsification  of  COVID-19 vaccination records a crime, as
 proposed in legislative bills  numbers  S.  4516-C  and  A.  7536-B,  is
 amended to read as follows:
   5. he intentionally ENTERS OR alters in any manner or destroys comput-
 er  material  indicating that a person did or did not receive a vaccina-
 tion against COVID-19.
   § 2.  This act shall take effect on the same  date  and  in  the  same
 manner  as a chapter of the laws of 2021 amending the penal law relating
 to making the falsification of COVID-19 vaccination records a crime,  as
 proposed  in  legislative  bills  numbers S. 4516-C and A. 7536-B, takes
 effect.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07421-11-2

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