Senate Bill S2630

2017-2018 Legislative Session

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

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-S2630 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A6634
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add §240.49, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S6226, A10125
2011-2012: S2937, A5269
2013-2014: S4156, A3874
2015-2016: S3491, A2885
2019-2020: S400, A3857
2021-2022: S5609
2023-2024: S4280

2017-S2630 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2017-S2630 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S2630 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2630
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 13, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sens. LANZA, GOLDEN -- 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 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:
 § 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.
   § 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.
                                                            LBD02422-01-7

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