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A11391 Summary:

BILL NO	A11391
SAME AS	No Same As
SPONSOR	Rules (Bichotte)
COSPNSR	Barron, Mosley
MLTSPNSR
Add §240.49, Pen L
Establishes the offense of filing a false report concerning a minor.

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A11391 Actions:

BILL NO	A11391
10/22/2018	referred to codes

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A11391 Committee Votes:

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A11391 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          11391
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    October 22, 2018
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        Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Bichotte) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
 
        AN  ACT  to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing "Jeremiah's
          Law" relating to establishing the offense of  filing  a  false  report
          concerning a minor
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
     2  "Jeremiah's Law".
     3    §  2.  The penal law is amended by adding a new section 240.49 to read
     4  as follows:
     5  § 240.49 Filing a false report concerning a minor.
     6    A person is guilty of filing a false report concerning a minor when he
     7  or she falsely reports an incident in the third degree as  described  in
     8  section  240.50  of  this  article and the individual who is the accused
     9  subject of the report is a child under the age of thirteen years.
    10    Filing a false report concerning a minor is a class E felony.
    11    § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    12  ing the date upon which it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16641-02-8

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