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S05887 Summary:

BILL NOS05887 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORLANZA

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add §240.49, Pen L

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

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03/03/2025REFERRED TO CODES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CODES

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5887

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 March 3, 2025
 ___________

 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 § 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 such person reported, conveyed, circulated
 6 or disseminated is false or baseless, such person 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 § 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.
 LBD10341-01-5

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