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Assembly Bill A3874

2013-2014 Legislative Session

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

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2013-A3874 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4156
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง240.49, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A10125, S6226
2011-2012: A5269, S2937
2015-2016: A2885, S3491
2017-2018: A6634, S2630
2019-2020: A3857, S400
2021-2022: S5609
2023-2024: S4280
2025-2026: S5887

2013-A3874 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2013-A3874 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  3874

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 29, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. TITONE, GIBSON, ORTIZ, CASTRO, GUNTHER, WEPRIN,
  MILLMAN, WEISENBERG, SCARBOROUGH, GALEF,  ZEBROWSKI,  HOOPER,  MILLER,
  JAFFEE  --  Multi-Sponsored  by  --  M. of A. ABBATE, ARROYO, BARCLAY,
  BOYLAND, CERETTO, COLTON, CORWIN, CROUCH,  DUPREY,  FINCH,  GOTTFRIED,
  HAWLEY, HIKIND, LUPARDO, MAGNARELLI, MAISEL, MARKEY, McKEVITT, MONTES-
  ANO,  OAKS,  PERRY,  RAIA, ROBINSON, SALADINO, SCHIMEL, SCHIMMINGER --
  read once and referred 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:

  Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 240.49  to
read as follows:
S 240.49 DISSEMINATION OF FALSE MISSING CHILD INFORMATION.
  A PERSON IS GUILTY OF DISSEMINATION OF FALSE MISSING CHILD INFORMATION
WHEN,  KNOWING  THE INFORMATION HE OR SHE REPORTED, CONVEYED, CIRCULATED
OR DISSEMINATED IS FALSE OR BASELESS, HE OR SHE STATES  OR  REPORTS,  BY
ANY MEANS, THAT A CHILD IS A MISSING CHILD AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION ONE
OF  SECTION  EIGHT HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN-E OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW, AND AS A
RESULT OF SUCH REPORT, CONVEYANCE, CIRCULATION OR DISSEMINATION,  PUBLIC
FUNDS  WERE  EXPENDED TO INVESTIGATE AND/OR LOCATE THE PURPORTED MISSING
CHILD.
  DISSEMINATION OF FALSE MISSING CHILD INFORMATION IS A CLASS E FELONY.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
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.
                                                           LBD03921-01-3

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