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AMENDMENT MEMO
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Memo published: January 12, 2024 Contact: Tom Koss, Staff Attorney
2023 Assembly Bill 715
Assembly
Amendment 1
2023 ASSEMBLY BILL 715
2023 Assembly Bill 715 includes several provisions related to financial institutions. As relevant to
Assembly Amendment 1, the bill creates a crime that prohibits intentionally causing impairment or
interruption of use, in whole or in part, of a financial institution’s automated teller machine or customer
bank communications terminal. A person who commits this crime is guilty of a Class H felony.
ASSEMBLY AMENDMENT 1
Assembly Amendment 1 modifies the crime created in the bill by prohibiting intentionally causing
impairment or interruption of use, in whole or in part, of any automated teller machine or customer
bank communications terminal, rather than requiring that it be of a financial institution.
BILL HISTORY
Representative Katsma introduced Assembly Amendment 1 on January 3, 2024. On January 10, 2024,
the Assembly Committee on Financial Institutions voted to recommend adoption of Assembly
Amendment 1 on a vote of Ayes, 8; Noes, 0; and recommended passage of Assembly Bill 715, as
amended, on a vote of Ayes, 9; Noes, 0.
For a full history of the bill, visit the Legislature’s bill history page.
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