New York A 6178: Enacts Caylee's law; establishes the crime of failure to report a child's disappearance or death

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A06178 Summary:

BILL NOA06178 

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SPONSORBrabenec

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §260.37, Pen L

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Enacts Caylee's law; establishes the crime of failure to report a child's disappearance or death, a class D felony; makes exception where child dies while under the medical care of a licensed physician.

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BILL NOA06178 

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02/26/2025referred to codes

01/07/2026referred to codes

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 6178

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 26, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. BRABENEC -- read once and referred to the Commit-
 tee on Codes

 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime of
 failure to report the death or disappearance of a child

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 2 "Caylee's law".
 3 § 2. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 260.37 to read
 4 as follows:
 5 § 260.37 Failure to report the death or disappearance of a child.
 6 1. A person is guilty of failure to report the death or disappearance
 7 of a child when:
 8 (a) Such person is the parent, guardian or other person legally
 9 charged with the care or custody of a child less than eighteen years old
 10 and knowingly or intentionally fails to notify and report to law
 11 enforcement within twenty-four hours of the death of such child, regard-
 12 less of whether such death was accidental or intentional; or
 13 (b) Such person is the parent, guardian or other person legally
 14 charged with the care or custody of a child less than eighteen years old
 15 and knowingly or intentionally fails to notify and report to law
 16 enforcement within twenty-four hours of the disappearance of such child.
 17 2. A person is not guilty of the provisions of this section when such
 18 person engages in the conduct described in subdivision one of this
 19 section and the child dies while under medical care from a duly licensed
 20 physician or when a death certificate has been issued for the child.
 21 Failure to report the death or disappearance of a child is a class D
 22 felony.
 23 § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
 24 have become a law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD04031-01-5

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