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Assembly Bill A10144

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to protecting children under the age of eighteen from endangerment

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2019-A10144 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §260.10, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A3865
2023-2024: A2320
2025-2026: A4145

2019-A10144 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes legislation to protect children under the age of eighteen from inappropriate communication which creates the foreseeable risk of endangering the child's emotional, mental or physical welfare.

2019-A10144 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10144
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 12, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. TAGUE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to protecting children  under
   the age of eighteen from endangerment
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of  section  260.10  of  the  penal  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  447  of  the  laws  of 2010, is amended to read as
 follows:
   1. He or she knowingly acts in a manner likely to be injurious to  the
 physical, mental or moral welfare of a child less than [seventeen] EIGH-
 TEEN years old or directs or authorizes such child to engage in an occu-
 pation  involving  a  substantial  risk  of danger to his or her life or
 health; or
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14551-02-0

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