NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
BILL NUMBER: A5336
SPONSOR: Brook-Krasny TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the penal law, in relation to the unlawful dissemination
of a security body scan
PURPOSE:
This legislation will make it a misdemeanor to unlawfully disseminate
security body scan images.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 0ne - amends the penal law by adding a new section 250.70 to
define a person guilty of unlawful dissemination of a body scan, when or
she, without the permission of the person of whom the scan was made,
knowingly disseminates a body scan taken for legal security purposes, or
any image or images derived from such scan to any person who has not
been authorized to receive the scan pursuant to state or federal statues
or regulates.
Section 0ne - classifies unlawful dissemination of a security body scan
a class A misdemeanor.
Section Two - Sets forth the active date of the first of November next
succeeding the date on which it shall have become law.
JUSTIFICATION:
While understanding the need to protect our passengers and airports;
this legislation secures the privacy of men, women and children who
travel through the airports in the State of New York. Unfortunately,
there will be employees who abuse the system and people's trust that
they will perform their jobs in a professional, ethical fashion.
This bill will provide the State of New York with the ability to crimi-
nally prosecute those employees who take advantage of their position of
authority.
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2023-2024 - HELD in Codes
2015: A.4159 - Referred to Codes
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None.
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This first of November next succeeding the date on which it shall have
become law.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5336
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 13, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. BROOK-KRASNY, NOVAKHOV -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the unlawful dissemination
of a security body scan
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 250.72 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 250.72 Unlawful dissemination of a security body scan.
4 A person is guilty of unlawful dissemination of a body scan, when such
5 person, without the permission of the person of whom the scan was made,
6 knowingly disseminates a body scan taken for legal security purposes, or
7 any image or images derived from such scan, to any other person who has
8 not been authorized to receive such scan pursuant to state or federal
9 statute or regulation.
10 Unlawful dissemination of a security body scan is a class A misdemea-
11 nor.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
13 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09204-01-5
