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Assembly Bill A6259

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Establishes the class A misdemeanor of unlawful dissemination of a security body scan

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2023-A6259 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add §250.72, Pen L
Versions Introduced in 2025-2026 Legislative Session:
A5336

2023-A6259 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the class A misdemeanor of unlawful dissemination of a security body scan.

2023-A6259 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6259
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               April 3, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. BROOK-KRASNY, NOVAKHOV -- read once and referred
   to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the unlawful dissemination
   of a security body scan
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 250.72 to
 read as follows:
 § 250.72 UNLAWFUL DISSEMINATION OF A SECURITY BODY SCAN.
   A PERSON IS GUILTY OF UNLAWFUL DISSEMINATION OF A BODY SCAN,  WHEN  HE
 OR  SHE, WITHOUT THE PERMISSION OF THE PERSON OF WHOM THE SCAN WAS MADE,
 KNOWINGLY DISSEMINATES A BODY SCAN TAKEN FOR LEGAL SECURITY PURPOSES, OR
 ANY IMAGE OR IMAGES DERIVED FROM SUCH SCAN, TO ANY PERSON  WHO  HAS  NOT
 BEEN  AUTHORIZED TO RECEIVE SUCH SCAN PURSUANT TO STATE OR FEDERAL STAT-
 UTE OR REGULATION.
   UNLAWFUL DISSEMINATION OF A SECURITY BODY SCAN IS A CLASS A  MISDEMEA-
 NOR.
   § 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.
                                                            LBD10282-01-3

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