Bill Text: NY A06634 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes the class E felony of dissemination of false missing child information.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 17-7)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to codes [A06634 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A06634-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6634 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 10, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. TITONE, ORTIZ, GUNTHER, WEPRIN, GALEF, ZEBROWSKI, HOOPER, M. G. MILLER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE, ARROYO, BARCLAY, COLTON, CROUCH, FINCH, GOTTFRIED, HAWLEY, HIKIND, LUPARDO, MAGNARELLI, McKEVITT, MONTESANO, OAKS, PERRY, RAIA, SCHIMMINGER -- 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. LBD02422-01-7