Bill Text: NY S02521 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to an intentional act or course of action that would cause serious physical harm to ten or more people.

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 19-2)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-03-05 - referred to codes [S02521 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S02521-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          2521
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 13, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens. GALLIVAN, CROCI -- 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  an  intentional  act  or
          continuing  course of action that would cause serious physical harm to
          ten or more people
          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  intentional act or continuing course of action that would cause  serious
     9  physical harm to ten or more people, upon school grounds and it is like-
    10  ly that persons are present on said grounds.
    11    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    12  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00181-01-7
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