Bill Text: NY A10125 | 2009-2010 | 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 36-17)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-05 - referred to codes [A10125 Detail]

Download: New_York-2009-A10125-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         10125
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     March 5, 2010
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       Introduced by M. of A. TITONE -- 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  S 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.
    9    DISSEMINATION OF FALSE MISSING CHILD INFORMATION IS A CLASS E FELONY.
   10    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
   11  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.
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