STATE OF NEW YORK
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4299
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 4, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. KOLB, GIGLIO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A.
BARCLAY, CROUCH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to unlawfully purchasing or
selling personal identifying information
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding three new sections
2 190.90, 190.91 and 190.92 to read as follows:
3 § 190.90 Personal identifying information; definition.
4 For the purposes of sections 190.91 and 190.92 of this article, the
5 term "personal identifying information" includes a birth certificate,
6 passport number, driver's license number, social security number,
7 taxpayer identification number, financial services account number or
8 code, savings account number or code, checking account number or code,
9 brokerage account number or code, credit card account number or code,
10 debit card number or code, automated teller machine number or code,
11 personal identification number, mother's maiden name, computer system
12 password, electronic signature or unique biometric data that is a fing-
13 erprint, voice print, retinal image or iris image of another person.
14 § 190.91 Unlawful purchase or sale of personal identifying information
15 in the second degree.
16 A person is guilty of unlawful purchase or sale of personal identify-
17 ing information in the second degree when he or she sells or offers to
18 sell or he or she purchases or offers to purchase another person's
19 personal identifying information and:
20 1. He or she knows or reasonably should know that such personal iden-
21 tifying information is intended to be used to defraud, deceive or injure
22 another; or
23 2. He or she knows or reasonably should know that such personal iden-
24 tifying information is intended to be used in furtherance of a crime or
25 violation defined in this chapter.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 Unlawful purchase or sale of personal identifying information in the
2 second degree is a class E felony.
3 § 190.92 Unlawful purchase or sale of personal identifying information
4 in the first degree.
5 A person is guilty of unlawful purchase or sale of personal identify-
6 ing information in the first degree when:
7 1. He or she commits the crime of unlawful purchase or sale of
8 personal identifying information in the second degree; and
9 (a) he or she has been previously convicted within the last five years
10 of unlawful purchase or sale of personal identifying information in the
11 second degree as defined in section 190.91 of this article; or
12 (b) he or she knowingly sells or offers to sell or purchases or offers
13 to purchase fifty or more persons' personal identifying information; or
14 2. With intent to further the commission of unlawful purchase or sale
15 of personal identifying information in the second degree, he or she
16 supervises more than three accomplices.
17 Unlawful purchase or sale of personal identifying information in the
18 first degree is a class D felony.
19 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
20 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
