Bill Text: NY A05931 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to establishing the crime of falsely reporting a hate crime as a class E felony.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to codes [A05931 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A05931-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5931 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 2, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. LALOR -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime of falsely reporting a hate crime as a class E felony 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 Falsely reporting a hate crime. 4 A person is guilty of falsely reporting a hate crime, as defined in 5 section 485.05 of this chapter, when, knowing the information reported, 6 conveyed or circulated to be false or baseless, he or she: 7 1. Initiates or circulates a false report or warning of an alleged 8 occurrence or impending occurrence of a hate crime under circumstances 9 in which it is not unlikely that public alarm or inconvenience will 10 result; or 11 2. Reports, by word or action, to an official or quasi-official agency 12 or organization having the function of dealing with emergencies involv- 13 ing danger to life or property, an alleged occurrence or impending 14 occurrence of a hate crime which did not in fact occur or is not about 15 to occur; or 16 3. Gratuitously reports to a law enforcement officer or agency: (a) 17 the alleged occurrence of a hate crime which did not in fact occur; or 18 (b) an allegedly impending occurrence of a hate crime which in fact is 19 not about to occur; or (c) false information relating to a hate crime or 20 to the alleged implication of some person therein. 21 Falsely reporting a hate crime is a class E felony. 22 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 23 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. LBD07389-01-1