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3 Co-sponsors
History
- Committed to rules
- Advanced to third reading
- 2nd report cal.
- Amended 5871a
- 1st report cal.434
- Notice of committee consideration - requested
- Referred to codes
- Referred to rules
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Relates to establishing the offense of false pretense
In Assembly Committee · Codes · Sponsor Linda Rosenthal
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Sponsor's memo
Title of bill
An act to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the offense of false pretense
Purpose or general idea of bill
This bill would establish a crime of false pretense, for knowingly and without consent impersonating another person online for the purposes of harming, intimidating, threatening, or defrauding such other person.
Summary of specific provisions
Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known as the "E-ImPersonation Prevention Act"
Section 2. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 190.22 to establish the crime of false pretense, stating: a person is guilty of false pretense, when he or she knowingly and without consent impersonates another person through an Internet website for the purposes of harming, intimidating, threatening or defrauding such other person. An impersonation is credible if another person would reasonably believe that the defendant was the person impersonated. Electronic means of impersonation includes email accounts and social networking profiles in another person's name. False pretense is a class D felony.
Section 3. is the effective date of the first of November on the next succeeding date.
Justification
Online predators, con artists, and cyber bullies are creating online profiles and email addresses in order to victimize people. In this age of advanced technology, twenty-four hour connectivity, and social networking there are countless opportunities for bad actors to assume an individual's identity to harass, intimidate, threaten, and defraud. Victims are faced with emotional, mental, and financial damage. Predators assume their identity to post scandalous and inflammatory lies for friends and family of the victims as well as the general public to see. As social media and electronic dating becomes widespread it is increasingly easy to hurt people in this way. This bill seeks to prevent this harm by criminalizing this heinous behavior.
Legislative history
06/09/15: REFERRED TO RULES 01/06/16: REFERRED TO CODES 03/04/16: NOTICE OF COMMITTEE CONSIDERATION - REQUESTED 03/22/16: 1ST REPORT CAL.434 03/23/16: AMENDED 5871A 03/23/16: 2ND REPORT CAL. 03/28/16: ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
Fiscal implications
None.
Local fiscal implications
None.
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately.
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