Bill Text: NY A08149 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to cyber crimes and identity theft; increases penalties for certain acts involving use of personal information, fraud, tampering, theft and use of a computer to commit crimes.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-14 - print number 8149a [A08149 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A08149-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8149--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY June 10, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL, MONTESANO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes -- recommitted to the Committee on Codes in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee AN ACT to amend the penal law and the criminal procedure law, in relation to cyber crimes The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivisions 1, 2, 3 and 4 of section 155.00 of the penal 2 law, subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 514 of the laws of 1986, are 3 amended and two new subdivisions 10 and 11 are added to read as follows: 4 1. "Property" means any money, personal property, real property, 5 computer data, computer program, personal identifying information, 6 secret scientific material, thing in action, evidence of debt or 7 contract, or any article, substance or thing of value, including any 8 gas, steam, water or electricity, which is provided for a charge or 9 compensation. 10 2. "Obtain" includes, but is not limited to, the bringing about of a 11 transfer or purported transfer of property or of a legal interest there- 12 in, whether to the obtainer or another. With regard to personal identi- 13 fying information, computer data or computer program, obtain includes 14 duplicating, recording, copying, downloading, uploading or printing out 15 the information, data, or program, or obtaining a physical object 16 containing such information. With regard to service, obtain includes, 17 but is not limited to, using or accessing a service. 18 3. "Deprive." To "deprive" another of property means (a) to withhold 19 it or cause it to be withheld from him or her permanently or for so 20 extended a period or under such circumstances that the major portion of 21 its economic value or benefit is lost to him or her, or (b) to dispose 22 of the property in such manner or under such circumstances as to render 23 it unlikely that an owner will recover such property. When the property 24 is personal identifying information, computer data or computer program, 25 to deprive another of its means to obtain it or cause a third person to EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08856-06-6