Bill Text: NY A05322 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Establishes the offense of filing a false report concerning a minor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to codes [A05322 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A05322-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          5322

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 12, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of A. BICHOTTE HERMELYN -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to  establishing  "Jeremiah's
          Law"  relating  to  establishing  the offense of filing a false report
          concerning a minor

          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  "Jeremiah's Law".
     3    § 2. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 240.49  to  read
     4  as follows:
     5  § 240.49 Filing a false report concerning a minor.
     6    A person is guilty of filing a false report concerning a minor when he
     7  or  she  falsely reports an incident in the third degree as described in
     8  section 240.50 of this article and the individual  who  is  the  accused
     9  subject of the report is a child under the age of thirteen years.
    10    Filing a false report concerning a minor is a class E felony.
    11    § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    12  ing the date upon which it shall have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06304-01-1
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