Bill Text: NY A01531 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 1531 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Relates to reporting a non-emergency incident involving a member of a protected class.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 50-0)

Status: (Passed) 2020-06-12 - signed chap.93 [A01531 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A01531-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1531
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 15, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  RICHARDSON  -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Codes
        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to reporting  a  nonemergency
          incident  to an organization having the function of dealing with emer-
          gencies
          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  § 240.49 Reporting a nonemergency incident.
     4    A person is guilty of reporting a nonemergency incident when,  knowing
     5  the  information  reported,  conveyed or circulated to be a nonemergency
     6  situation, he or she initiates or circulates a report or warning  to  an
     7  official or quasi-official agency or organization having the function of
     8  dealing  with  emergencies  involving  danger  to life or property of an
     9  alleged occurrence or impending occurrence of a  nonemergency  situation
    10  in which it is unlikely that a threat to public safety will result.
    11    Reporting a nonemergency incident is a class B misdemeanor.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04520-01-9