New York S 83: Increases the penalties for bias-related and gang related graffiti, and graffiti upon religious property

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S00083 Summary:

BILL NOS00083 

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SAME ASSAME AS A06794

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SPONSORLIU

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COSPNSRMURRAY, PARKER, ROLISON, WEBB

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §155.05, Pen L

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Relates to establishing the crime of larceny by cyber extortion which occurs when a person intends to obtain property from another person or entity located in the state of New York through the use of certain malicious software.

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BILL NOS00083 

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO CODES

02/24/20251ST REPORT CAL.357

02/25/20252ND REPORT CAL.

02/26/2025ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

03/03/2025PASSED SENATE

03/03/2025DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

03/03/2025referred to codes

01/07/2026died in assembly

01/07/2026returned to senate

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CODES

02/04/20261ST REPORT CAL.272

02/05/20262ND REPORT CAL.

02/09/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

02/10/2026PASSED SENATE

02/10/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

02/10/2026referred to codes

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 83

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. LIU, PARKER, WEBB -- 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
 larceny by cyber extortion

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Paragraph (g) of subdivision 2 of section 155.05 of the
 2 penal law, as added by section 4 of part O of chapter 56 of the laws of
 3 2024, is amended and a new paragraph (h) is added to read as follows:
 4 (g) By deed theft. A person commits deed theft when such person:
 5 (i) Intentionally alters, falsifies, forges, or misrepresents any
 6 written instrument involved in the conveyance or financing of real prop-
 7 erty, such as a residential or commercial deed or title, with the intent
 8 to deceive, defraud, or unlawfully transfer or encumber the ownership
 9 rights or a portion thereof of a residential or commercial property; or
 10 (ii) with intent to defraud, misrepresents themselves as the owner or
 11 authorized representative of residential or commercial real property to
 12 induce others to rely on such false information in order to obtain
 13 ownership or possession of such real property; or
 14 (iii) with intent to defraud, takes, obtains, or transfers title or
 15 ownership of real property by fraud, misrepresentation, forgery, larce-
 16 ny, false pretenses, false promise, or any other fraudulent or deceptive
 17 practice[.]; or
 18 (h) By cyber extortion.
 19 A person obtains property by cyber extortion when with the intent to
 20 obtain property from another person or entity located in the state of
 21 New York, such person removes or otherwise remediates the impact of a
 22 set of machine language instructions that restricts another person's or
 23 entity's access to the other person's or entity's computer, computer
 24 system, computer network, or any data therein, that is designed to modi-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00522-01-5

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 1 fy, damage, destroy, record, or transmit information within a computer,
 2 computer system, or computer network or render inoperable or otherwise
 3 modify such person's or entity's computer, computer system, or computer
 4 network without the intent or permission of the owner of such computer,
 5 computer system, computer network, or any data contained therein, here-
 6 inafter referred to as malicious computer instructions, and the person
 7 intended to implement and did implement such malicious computer
 8 instructions, threatened to implement whether or not the person intended
 9 to implement such malicious computer instructions, or, even though such
 10 instructions were not implemented, stated that such malicious computer
 11 instructions were implemented on the person's or entity's computer.
 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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