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Senate Bill S1632

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Expands authorization of safe haven abandonment of an infant from the limit of 5 days of age to 3 months of age

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2009-S1632 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10329
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยงยง260.03 & 260.15, Pen L

2009-S1632 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Expands authorization of safe haven abandonment of an infant from the limit of 5 days of age to 3 months of age.

2009-S1632 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S1632 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  1632

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            February 3, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. SAMPSON -- 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  the  abandoned  infant
  protection act

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Section 260.03 of the penal law, as added by chapter 156 of
the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
S 260.03 Abandonment of a child; defense.
  In any prosecution for abandonment of a  child,  pursuant  to  section
260.00  of  this article, based upon an alleged desertion of a child not
more than [five days] THREE MONTHS old with an intent to wholly  abandon
such  child, it is an affirmative defense that, with the intent that the
child be safe from physical injury  and  cared  for  in  an  appropriate
manner,  the defendant left the child with an appropriate person or in a
suitable location and promptly notified an  appropriate  person  of  the
child's location.
  S  2.  Subdivision  2  of section 260.15 of the penal law, as added by
chapter 156 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
  2. based upon an alleged desertion of a  child  not  more  than  [five
days]  THREE  MONTHS  old,  it  is an affirmative defense that, with the
intent that the child be safe from physical injury and cared for  in  an
appropriate  manner,  the  defendant  left the child with an appropriate
person or in a suitable location and promptly  notified  an  appropriate
person of the child's location.
  S 3. This act shall take effect immediately.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD00044-01-9

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