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Assembly Bill A2948

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to providing certain relief for persons who are victims of identity theft

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2023-A2948 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Criminal Procedure Law
Laws Affected:
Add §160.65, CP L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A2271
2011-2012: A2072
2013-2014: A2795
2015-2016: A7122
2017-2018: A4853
2019-2020: A5590
2021-2022: A4275
2025-2026: A4267

2023-A2948 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides certain relief for persons who are victims of identity theft; provides for destruction or sealing of certain police and court records and for issuance of an identity theft passport.

2023-A2948 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2948
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 1, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. JENSEN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN  ACT  to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to destruction
   and sealing of certain court and police records and the issuance of an
   identity theft passport
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The  criminal  procedure  law  is amended by adding a new
 section 160.65 to read as follows:
 § 160.65 EXPUNGEMENT OF FALSE IDENTITY INFORMATION FROM POLICE AND COURT
             RECORDS; IDENTITY THEFT PASSPORT.
   ANY PERSON WHOSE NAME OR OTHER IDENTIFICATION HAS  BEEN  USED  WITHOUT
 HIS  OR  HER  CONSENT  OR  AUTHORIZATION  BY ANOTHER PERSON WHO HAS BEEN
 CHARGED OR ARRESTED USING SUCH NAME OR IDENTIFICATION MAY FILE  A  PETI-
 TION  WITH THE COURT FOR RELIEF PURSUANT TO SECTION 160.50 OF THIS ARTI-
 CLE.  A PERSON WHO HAS PETITIONED THE COURT TO SEAL OR  DESTROY  RECORDS
 PURSUANT  TO  SECTION  160.50 OF THIS ARTICLE AS A RESULT OF A VIOLATION
 RELATING TO IDENTITY THEFT UNDER ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED NINETY OF THE PENAL
 LAW AGAINST SUCH PERSON MAY SUBMIT TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL  A  CERTIFIED
 COPY  OF A COURT ORDER OBTAINED PURSUANT TO SECTION 160.50 OF THIS ARTI-
 CLE.  THE ATTORNEY GENERAL, IN COOPERATION WITH THE  STATE  POLICE,  MAY
 ISSUE  AN  "IDENTITY THEFT PASSPORT" STATING THAT SUCH AN ORDER HAS BEEN
 SUBMITTED AND MAY INCLUDE THE  VICTIM'S  PHOTOGRAPH  AND  A  FINGERPRINT
 RECORD.    THE  ATTORNEY  GENERAL  MAY  PROVIDE ACCESS TO IDENTITY THEFT
 INFORMATION TO  CRIMINAL  JUSTICE  AGENCIES  AND  INDIVIDUALS  WHO  HAVE
 SUBMITTED  A  COURT  ORDER  PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION.  WHEN THE ATTORNEY
 GENERAL ISSUES AN IDENTITY THEFT PASSPORT, IT SHALL TRANSMIT A RECORD OF
 THE ISSUANCE OF THE PASSPORT TO THE DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES.   SUCH
 DEPARTMENT  SHALL  NOTE ON THE INDIVIDUAL'S DRIVER ABSTRACT THAT A COURT
 ORDER WAS OBTAINED PURSUANT TO SECTION 160.50 OF THIS ARTICLE  AND  THAT
 AN IDENTITY THEFT PASSPORT HAS BEEN ISSUED.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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