Assembly Bill A7983

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to computer-related crimes

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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-A7983 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5186
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd Pen L, generally; amd §6430, Ed L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S7382
2017-2018: S4670
2019-2020: A8324, S2475
2023-2024: S2730

2021-A7983 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to computer-related crimes; creates the crimes unlawful disruption of computer services in the first and second degree, unlawful computer access assistance in the first and second degree, unauthorized use of internet domain name or profile, and unlawful introduction of a computer contaminant; allows for a civil action for compensatory damages for victims of such crimes.

2021-A7983 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7983
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 4, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  penal law and the education law, in relation to
   computer-related crimes
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1. Section 156.00 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 558
 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
 § 156.00 Offenses involving computers; definition of terms.
   The following definitions are applicable to this chapter except  where
 different meanings are expressly specified:
   1.  "Computer"  means  a  device or group of devices which, by manipu-
 lation of electronic, magnetic,  optical  or  electrochemical  impulses,
 pursuant  to  a  computer program, can automatically perform arithmetic,
 logical, storage or retrieval operations with or on computer  data,  and
 includes any connected or directly related device, equipment or facility
 which enables such computer to store, retrieve or communicate to or from
 a  person,  another  computer  or another device the results of computer
 operations, computer programs or computer data.
   2. "Computer program" is property and means an  ordered  set  of  data
 representing  coded  instructions  or  statements that, when executed by
 computer, cause the computer, COMPUTER SYSTEM  OR  COMPUTER  NETWORK  to
 process data or direct the computer, COMPUTER SYSTEM OR COMPUTER NETWORK
 to  perform  one  or  more computer operations or both and may be in any
 form, including magnetic storage media, punched cards, or stored  inter-
 nally in the memory of the computer.
   3.  "Computer data" is property and means a representation of informa-
 tion, knowledge, facts, concepts or instructions which are  being  proc-
 essed,  or  have  been  processed  in a computer and may be in any form,
 including magnetic storage media, punched cards, or stored internally in
 the memory of the computer.

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

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