Senate Bill S400

2019-2020 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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2019-S400 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A3857
Current Committee:
Senate Codes
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
2017-2018: S2630, A6634
2021-2022: S5609
2023-2024: S4280
2025-2026: S5887

2019-S400 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2019-S400 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S400 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    400
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 9, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- 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.
                                                            LBD03256-01-9

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