STATE OF NEW YORK
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7049
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 20, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. BICHOTTE HERMELYN, MEEKS, ZINERMAN, JACKSON,
SIMON, GIBBS -- 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
7 such person falsely reports an incident in the third degree as described
8 in 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.
LBD05047-01-5
