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Assembly Bill A4145

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to protecting children under the age of eighteen from endangerment

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2025-A4145 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §260.10, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A10144
2021-2022: A3865
2023-2024: A2320

2025-A4145 (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.

2025-A4145 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4145
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 31, 2025
                                ___________
 
 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] SUCH PERSON knowingly acts in a  manner  likely  to  be
 injurious  to the physical, mental or moral welfare of a child less than
 [seventeen] EIGHTEEN years old or directs or authorizes  such  child  to
 engage  in  an occupation involving a substantial risk of danger to [his
 or her] THE life or health OF SUCH CHILD; 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.
                                                            LBD06403-01-5

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