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Senate Bill S12

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to making false statements to district attorneys, assistant district attorneys or district attorney investigators

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2017-S12 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Judiciary
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add §195.25, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S7540
2019-2020: S2371
2021-2022: S390

2017-S12 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to making false statements to district attorneys, assistant district attorneys or district attorney investigators.

2017-S12 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S12 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    12
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 4, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. KAMINSKY -- 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 making false statements to
   district attorneys, assistant district attorneys or district  attorney
   investigators in this state

   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 195.25  to
 read as follows:
 § 195.25 MAKING FALSE STATEMENTS.
   A  PERSON  IS  GUILTY  OF MAKING A FALSE STATEMENT IN ANY MATTER WHEN,
 COMMUNICATING WITH ANY DISTRICT ATTORNEY, ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY OR
 DISTRICT ATTORNEY INVESTIGATOR OF ANY COUNTY OF THIS STATE,  HE  OR  SHE
 KNOWINGLY AND WILLFULLY:
   (A)  FALSIFIES, CONCEALS, OR COVERS UP BY ANY TRICK, SCHEME, OR DEVICE
 A MATERIAL FACT;
   (B) MAKES ANY MATERIALLY FALSE, FICTITIOUS, OR FRAUDULENT STATEMENT OR
 REPRESENTATION; OR
   (C) MAKES OR USES ANY FALSE WRITING OR DOCUMENT KNOWING  THE  SAME  TO
 CONTAIN  ANY  MATERIALLY  FALSE,  FICTITIOUS, OR FRAUDULENT STATEMENT OR
 ENTRY.
   MAKING FALSE STATEMENTS IS A CLASS E FELONY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03964-02-7

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