Bill Text: NY S00708 | 2019-2020 | 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: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 6-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CODES [S00708 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S00708-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                           708
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced by Sens. GALLIVAN, HELMING -- 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.
                                                                   LBD02741-01-9
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