Bill Text: NY A09784 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to the threat of mass violence.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-08-08 - print number 9784a [A09784 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A09784-Amended.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        9784--A
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 22, 2014
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       Introduced  by  M. of A. LENTOL, PAULIN -- read once and referred to the
         Committee on Codes --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
         reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to threats of mass violence
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 240.60 of the penal law, as  added
    2  by chapter 561 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as follows:
    3    5.  Knowing  the  information  reported,  conveyed or circulated to be
    4  false or baseless and under circumstances in which it is  likely  public
    5  alarm  or inconvenience will result, he or she initiates or circulates a
    6  report or warning of an alleged occurrence or an impending occurrence of
    7  a fire, an explosion, [or] the release of a hazardous substance,  OR  AN
    8  ACT  OF  MASS VIOLENCE upon school grounds and it is likely that persons
    9  are present on said grounds.
   10    S 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
   11  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD15158-02-4