STATE OF NEW YORK
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6634
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 10, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. TITONE, ORTIZ, GUNTHER, WEPRIN, GALEF, ZEBROWSKI,
HOOPER, M. G. MILLER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE, ARROYO,
BARCLAY, COLTON, CROUCH, FINCH, GOTTFRIED, HAWLEY, HIKIND, LUPARDO,
MAGNARELLI, McKEVITT, MONTESANO, OAKS, PERRY, RAIA, SCHIMMINGER --
read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to dissemination of false
information about a missing child
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 Dissemination of false missing child information.
4 A person is guilty of dissemination of false missing child information
5 when, knowing the information he or she reported, conveyed, circulated
6 or disseminated is false or baseless, he or she states or reports, by
7 any means, that a child is a missing child as defined in subdivision one
8 of section eight hundred thirty-seven-e of the executive law, and as a
9 result of such report, conveyance, circulation or dissemination, public
10 funds were expended to investigate and/or locate the purported missing
11 child.
12 Dissemination of false missing child information is a class E felony.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
14 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.
LBD02422-01-7
