Enacts "Caylee's law" to establish the felonies of failure to report the disappearance of a child, as a class E felony, and failure to report the death of a child, as a class D felony.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6648
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 10, 2017
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Introduced by M. of A. TITONE, CRESPO, GALEF, ENGLEBRIGHT, BENEDETTO,
ORTIZ, MOYA, M. G. MILLER, JAFFEE, HOOPER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M.
of A. ARROYO, BARCLAY, GIGLIO, MAGEE, McDONOUGH, PALMESANO, RA, RAIA,
SCHIMMINGER, THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee on
Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the failure to report the
death or disappearance of a child
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 "Caylee's law".
3 § 2. The penal law is amended by adding two new sections 260.40 and
4 260.45 to read as follows:
5 § 260.40 Failure to report the disappearance of a child.
6 A person is guilty of failure to report the disappearance of a child
7 when being the parent, guardian or other person legally charged with the
8 care or custody of a child less than eighteen years of age and he or she
9 has reason to believe such child is missing, such person fails to
10 provide notice thereof to a police officer or a law enforcement agency
11 within twenty-four hours such person has reason to believe the child is
12 missing.
13 Failure to report the disappearance of a child is a class E felony.
14 § 260.45 Failure to report the death of a child.
15 A person is guilty of failure to report the death of a child when
16 being the parent, guardian or other person legally charged with the care
17 or custody of a child less than eighteen years of age and he or she has
18 reason to believe such child is dead while not under the care of a
19 health care professional or emergency medical personnel, such person
20 fails to provide notice thereof as soon as reasonably possible, to a
21 police officer or a law enforcement agency.
22 Failure to report the death of a child is a class D felony.
23 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
24 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.
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