Bill Text: NY S00397 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Establishes a class D felony offense for endangering the welfare of a child in the first degree in certain aggravated circumstances.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-05-24 - referred to codes [S00397 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S00397-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 397--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 7, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sens. GALLIVAN, GOLDEN, KENNEDY, LATIMER, PANEPINTO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes -- recommitted to the Committee on Codes in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to endangering the welfare of a child in the first and second degrees The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 260.10 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 447 2 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 260.10 Endangering the welfare of a child in the second degree. 4 A person is guilty of endangering the welfare of a child in the second 5 degree when: 6 1. He or she knowingly acts in a manner likely to be injurious to the 7 physical, mental or moral welfare of a child less than seventeen years 8 old or directs or authorizes such child to engage in an occupation 9 involving a substantial risk of danger to his or her life or health; or 10 2. Being a parent, guardian or other person legally charged with the 11 care or custody of a child less than eighteen years old, he or she fails 12 or refuses to exercise reasonable diligence in the control of such child 13 to prevent him or her from becoming an "abused child," a "neglected 14 child," a "juvenile delinquent" or a "person in need of supervision," as 15 those terms are defined in articles ten, three and seven of the family 16 court act. 17 3. A person is not guilty of the provisions of this section when he or 18 she engages in the conduct described in subdivision one of section 19 260.00 of this article: (a) with the intent to wholly abandon the child 20 by relinquishing responsibility for and right to the care and custody of EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD01358-02-6
