STATE OF NEW YORK
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9784--A
IN ASSEMBLY
May 22, 2014
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Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL, PAULIN -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Codes -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to threats of mass violence
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 240.60 of the penal law, as added
2 by chapter 561 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as follows:
3 5. Knowing the information reported, conveyed or circulated to be
4 false or baseless and under circumstances in which it is likely public
5 alarm or inconvenience will result, he or she initiates or circulates a
6 report or warning of an alleged occurrence or an impending occurrence of
7 a fire, an explosion, [or] the release of a hazardous substance, or an
8 act of mass violence upon school grounds and it is likely that persons
9 are present on said grounds.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
11 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15158-02-4
