Bill Text: NY S00012 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to making false statements to district attorneys, assistant district attorneys or district attorney investigators.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-05-15 - REPORTED AND COMMITTED TO JUDICIARY [S00012 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S00012-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 12 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 4, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KAMINSKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to making false statements to district attorneys, assistant district attorneys or district attorney investigators in this state 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 195.25 to 2 read as follows: 3 § 195.25 Making false statements. 4 A person is guilty of making a false statement in any matter when, 5 communicating with any district attorney, assistant district attorney or 6 district attorney investigator of any county of this state, he or she 7 knowingly and willfully: 8 (a) falsifies, conceals, or covers up by any trick, scheme, or device 9 a material fact; 10 (b) makes any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or 11 representation; or 12 (c) makes or uses any false writing or document knowing the same to 13 contain any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or 14 entry. 15 Making false statements is a class E felony. 16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 17 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03964-02-7