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Senate Bill S7313

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Includes the impersonation of a doctor of medicine as criminal impersonation in the second degree

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2015-S7313 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง190.25, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S4698
2019-2020: S3040

2015-S7313 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes the impersonation of a doctor of medicine as criminal impersonation in the second degree.

2015-S7313 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S7313 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  7313

                            I N  S E N A T E

                             April 15, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to including  the  impersona-
  tion  of  a doctor of medicine as criminal impersonation in the second
  degree

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1. Section 190.25 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
subdivision 5 to read as follows:
  5. IMPERSONATES A DOCTOR OF MEDICINE  AND,  IN  SO  DOING,  THE  ACTOR
PROVIDES  MEDICAL  ADVICE  OR  TREATMENT TO ANOTHER PERSON AS A PATIENT,
REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT THE OTHER  PERSON  SUFFERS  HARM  FROM  THE
MEDICAL ADVICE OR TREATMENT.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
ing the date on which it shall have become a law.







 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD13585-01-6

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