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S00482 Summary:

BILL NO	S00482A
SAME AS	SAME AS A07403-A
SPONSOR	LANZA
COSPNSR
MLTSPNSR
Add S240.49, Pen L
Creates the crime of falsely accusing someone of a crime.

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S00482 Actions:

BILL NO	S00482A
01/07/2009	REFERRED TO CODES
01/06/2010	REFERRED TO CODES
04/14/2010	AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CODES
04/14/2010	PRINT NUMBER 482A

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S00482 Floor Votes:

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S00482 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         482--A
 
                               2009-2010 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 7, 2009
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes  --  recommitted  to
          the  Committee  on  Codes  in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and

          recommitted to said committee
 
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  penal  law, in relation to the crime of falsely
          accusing someone of a crime
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 240.49 to
     2  read as follows:
     3  § 240.49 Falsely accusing someone of a crime.
     4    A person is guilty of falsely accusing someone of a crime when  he  or
     5  she  signs  and  submits  an  accusatory instrument with a member of law
     6  enforcement and does so knowing the content of the accusatory instrument
     7  is false.
     8    Falsely accusing someone of a crime is a class E felony.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-

    10  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.
                                                                   LBD02996-02-0

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