STATE OF NEW YORK
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7042
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 31, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the unlawful possession of
a patient record
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 a new section 250.73 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 250.73 Unlawful possession of a patient record.
4 A person is guilty of unlawful possession of a patient record when the
5 person obtains a patient record without legal authority, or receives a
6 patient record that was disclosed to such person without legal authori-
7 ty, and intentionally disregards a written demand by a health care
8 provider that lawfully possessed such record, or by the patient who is
9 the subject of such record, to return or destroy the record. For the
10 purpose of this section, "patient record" shall mean patient information
11 as defined in section eighteen of the public health law that is in writ-
12 ten or electronic form, and "person" does not include a covered entity
13 within the meaning of HIPAA regulations.
14 Unlawful possession of a patient record is a class A misdemeanor.
15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
16 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD11324-01-5
