Bill Text: NY A03865 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes legislation to protect children under the age of eighteen from inappropriate communication which creates the foreseeable risk of endangering the child's emotional, mental or physical welfare.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-03 - held for consideration in codes [A03865 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A03865-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3865 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 28, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. TAGUE, BRABENEC, COLTON, McDONOUGH, MORINELLO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to protecting children under the age of eighteen from endangerment The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 260.10 of the penal law, as 2 amended by chapter 447 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 1. He or she knowingly acts in a manner likely to be injurious to the 5 physical, mental or moral welfare of a child less than [seventeen] eigh- 6 teen years old or directs or authorizes such child to engage in an occu- 7 pation involving a substantial risk of danger to his or her life or 8 health; or 9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 10 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06590-01-1
