New York S 5609: Establishes the class E felony of dissemination of false missing child information

Bill Text

STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5609
                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     March 12, 2021
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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  § 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    § 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  (underscored) is new; matter in bracketsitalics
                              [] is old law to be omitted. 
                                                                   LBD05912-01-1