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

New York Assembly Bill 9784 (Prior Session Legislation)

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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]

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         9784
                                 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
       AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to threats of gun 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 immediately.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD15158-01-4