Bill Text: NY S04156 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the class E felony of dissemination of false missing child information.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-06-12 - referred to codes [S04156 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S04156-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         4156
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                    March 12, 2013
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- 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  dissemination  of  false
         information about a missing child
         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  S 240.49 DISSEMINATION OF FALSE MISSING CHILD INFORMATION.
    4    A PERSON IS GUILTY OF DISSEMINATION OF FALSE MISSING CHILD INFORMATION
    5  WHEN,  KNOWING  THE INFORMATION HE OR SHE REPORTED, CONVEYED, CIRCULATED
    6  OR DISSEMINATED IS FALSE OR BASELESS, HE OR SHE STATES  OR  REPORTS,  BY
    7  ANY MEANS, THAT A CHILD IS A MISSING CHILD AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION ONE
    8  OF  SECTION  EIGHT HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN-E OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW, AND AS A
    9  RESULT OF SUCH REPORT, CONVEYANCE, CIRCULATION OR DISSEMINATION,  PUBLIC
   10  FUNDS  WERE  EXPENDED TO INVESTIGATE AND/OR LOCATE THE PURPORTED MISSING
   11  CHILD.
   12    DISSEMINATION OF FALSE MISSING CHILD INFORMATION IS A CLASS E FELONY.
   13    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
   14  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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