Bill Text: NY A09798 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to falsely reporting an incident in the first degree; adds a new category for reports or warnings of an alleged or impending occurrence involving a bombing, hostage situation or person armed with a deadly weapon.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-02-09 - referred to codes [A09798 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A09798-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9798 IN ASSEMBLY February 9, 2018 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to falsely reporting an inci- dent in the first degree The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 240.60 of the penal law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 7 to read as follows: 3 7. commits the crime of falsely reporting an incident in the third 4 degree as defined in subdivisions one, two and three of section 240.50 5 of this article or falsely reporting an incident in the second degree as 6 defined in subdivisions one and two of section 240.55 of this article 7 and such crime involves a report or warning of an alleged occurrence or 8 impending occurrence of a bombing, hostage situation or person armed 9 with a deadly weapon as defined by subdivision twelve of section 10.00 10 of this chapter. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 12 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. LBD14559-01-8
