Bill Text: NY A03972 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Enacts "Jeremiah's law"; establishes the offense of filing a false report concerning a minor.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to codes [A03972 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A03972-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3972 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 8, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. BICHOTTE HERMELYN, MEEKS, ZINERMAN, JACKSON, SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing "Jeremiah's Law" relating to establishing the offense of filing a false report concerning a minor The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as 2 "Jeremiah's Law". 3 § 2. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 240.49 to read 4 as follows: 5 § 240.49 Filing a false report concerning a minor. 6 A person is guilty of filing a false report concerning a minor when he 7 or she falsely reports an incident in the third degree as described in 8 section 240.50 of this article and the individual who is the accused 9 subject of the report is a child under the age of thirteen years. 10 Filing a false report concerning a minor is a class E felony. 11 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 12 ing the date upon which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03679-01-3
