Bill Text: NY A06634 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6634
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                     March 10, 2017
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        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