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Jan 06, 2010 |
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Mar 18, 2009 |
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Senate Bill S3391
2009-2010 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Codes Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2009-S3391 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Codes
- Law Section:
- Penal Law
- Laws Affected:
- Add §§190.87 & 190.88, Pen L
2009-S3391 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Establishes the crimes of unlawful purchase or sale of a social security number in the first and second degrees; prohibits the sale of a person's social security account number; establishes unlawful sale of a social security number in the first degree as a class D felony and unlawful sale of a social security number in the second degree as a class E felony.
2009-S3391 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S3391 TITLE OF BILL : An act to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime of unlawful sale of social security account number PURPOSE : This bill would make the unlawful sale of social security account number in the second and first degree. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS : This bill adds two new sections 190.85 and 190.86 to the Penal law, providing for the unlawful sale of social security account number in the second and first degree. JUSTIFICATION : With the dawning and subsequent explosion of the high tech age, identity theft has become one of the fastest growing crimes in our nation. According to statistics from the Secret Service Agency, investigations of financial crimes involving identity fraud has climbed steadily from $442 million in 1995, to $450 million in 1996 to an alarming $745 million in 1997. In Western New York an individual victimized by this crime faced armed bounty hunters in her home demanding the return of a $24,000 luxury car that was in fact leased, and ultimately stolen, by someone using
2009-S3391 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 3391 2009-2010 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E March 18, 2009 ___________ Introduced by Sen. NOZZOLIO -- 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 establishing the crime of unlawful purchase or sale of a social security account number 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 two new sections 190.87 and 190.88 to read as follows: S 190.87 UNLAWFUL PURCHASE OR SALE OF A SOCIAL SECURITY ACCOUNT NUMBER IN THE SECOND DEGREE. A PERSON IS GUILTY OF UNLAWFUL PURCHASE OR SALE OF A SOCIAL SECURITY ACCOUNT NUMBER IN THE SECOND DEGREE WHEN HE OR SHE KNOWINGLY SELLS OR OFFERS TO SELL OR HE OR SHE PURCHASES OR OFFERS TO PURCHASE ANOTHER PERSON'S SOCIAL SECURITY ACCOUNT NUMBER. UNLAWFUL PURCHASE OR SALE OF A SOCIAL SECURITY ACCOUNT NUMBER IN THE SECOND DEGREE IS A CLASS E FELONY. S 190.88 UNLAWFUL PURCHASE OR SALE OF A SOCIAL SECURITY ACCOUNT NUMBER IN THE FIRST DEGREE. A PERSON IS GUILTY OF UNLAWFUL PURCHASE OR SALE OF A SOCIAL SECURITY ACCOUNT NUMBER IN THE FIRST DEGREE WHEN HE OR SHE KNOWINGLY SELLS OR OFFERS TO SELL OR PURCHASES OR OFFERS TO PURCHASE ANOTHER PERSON'S SOCIAL SECURITY ACCOUNT NUMBER AND: 1. HE OR SHE HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY CONVICTED WITHIN THE LAST FIVE YEARS OF UNLAWFUL PURCHASE OR SALE OF A SOCIAL SECURITY ACCOUNT NUMBER IN THE SECOND DEGREE AS DEFINED IN SECTION 190.87 OF THIS ARTICLE; OR 2. HE OR SHE KNOWINGLY SELLS OR OFFERS TO SELL OR PURCHASES OR OFFERS TO PURCHASE FIFTY OR MORE PERSONS' SOCIAL SECURITY ACCOUNT NUMBERS; OR 3. WITH INTENT TO FURTHER THE COMMISSION OF UNLAWFUL PURCHASE OR SALE OF A SOCIAL SECURITY ACCOUNT NUMBER IN THE SECOND DEGREE, HE OR SHE SUPERVISES MORE THAN THREE ACCOMPLICES. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00679-01-9
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