Bill Text: NY S02371 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
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Bill Title: Relates to making false statements to district attorneys, assistant district attorneys or district attorney investigators.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CODES [S02371 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S02371-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Relates to making false statements to district attorneys, assistant district attorneys or district attorney investigators.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CODES [S02371 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S02371-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2371 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 24, 2019 ___________ 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 a false statement to a district attorney or district 4 attorney investigator. 5 1. A person is guilty of making a false statement to a district attor- 6 ney or district attorney investigator when, in communicating with any 7 district attorney, assistant district attorney or district attorney 8 investigator of any county of this state who is investigating a qualify- 9 ing crime or alleged qualifying crime, and where the district attorney, 10 assistant district attorney or district attorney investigator has previ- 11 ously recorded or otherwise documented the office's intent to investi- 12 gate the case as a qualifying crime or alleged qualifying crime, he or 13 she is warned by such district attorney, assistant district attorney or 14 district attorney investigator that false statements are subject to 15 criminal penalties, and he or she knowingly and willfully: 16 (a) falsifies, conceals, or covers up by any trick, scheme, or device 17 a material fact; 18 (b) makes any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or 19 representation; or 20 (c) makes or uses any false writing or document knowing the same to 21 contain any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or 22 entry. 23 2. For the purposes of this section, a "qualifying crime" is defined 24 to mean grand larceny in the second degree as defined in section 155.40, EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03410-02-9S. 2371 2 1 grand larceny in the first degree as defined in section 155.42, computer 2 tampering in the first degree as defined in section 156.27, welfare 3 fraud in the second degree as defined in section 158.20, welfare fraud 4 in the first degree as defined in section 158.25, criminal possession of 5 public benefit cards in the first degree as defined in section 158.50, 6 criminal possession of stolen property in the second degree as defined 7 in section 165.52, criminal possession of stolen property in the first 8 degree as defined in section 165.54, trademark counterfeiting in the 9 first degree as defined in section 165.73, forgery in the first degree 10 as defined in section 170.15, criminal possession of a forged instrument 11 in the first degree as defined in section 170.30, falsifying business 12 records in the second degree as defined in section 175.05, falsifying 13 business records in the first degree as defined in section 175.10, 14 tampering with public records in the first degree as defined in section 15 175.25, issuing a false financial statement as defined in section 16 175.45, misconduct by corporate official as defined in section 190.35, 17 criminal usury in the second degree as defined in section 190.40, crimi- 18 nal usury in the first degree as defined by section 190.42, unlawful 19 collection practices as defined in section 190.50, making a false state- 20 ment of credit terms as defined in section 190.55, scheme to defraud in 21 the second degree as defined in section 190.60, scheme to defraud in the 22 first degree as defined in section 190.65, identity theft in the first 23 degree as defined in section 190.80, aggravated identity theft as 24 defined in section 190.80-a and official misconduct as defined in 25 section 195.00, as well as any violation of article one hundred seven- 26 ty-six, one hundred seventy-seven, one hundred eighty, one hundred 27 eighty-five, one hundred eighty-seven or two hundred of this chapter. 28 Making a false statement to a district attorney or district attorney 29 investigator is a class E felony. 30 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 31 have become a law.