Bill Text: NY A03857 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes the class E felony of dissemination of false missing child information.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to codes [A03857 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A03857-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3857 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 31, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. MAGNARELLI -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to dissemination of false information about a missing child 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 240.49 to 2 read as follows: 3 § 240.49 Dissemination of false missing child information. 4 A person is guilty of dissemination of false missing child information 5 when, knowing the information he or she reported, conveyed, circulated 6 or disseminated is false or baseless, he or she states or reports, by 7 any means, that a child is a missing child as defined in subdivision one 8 of section eight hundred thirty-seven-e of the executive law, and as a 9 result of such report, conveyance, circulation or dissemination, public 10 funds were expended to investigate and/or locate the purported missing 11 child. 12 Dissemination of false missing child information is a class E felony. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 14 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. LBD03256-01-9
