Establishes legislation to protect children under the age of eighteen from inappropriate communication which creates the foreseeable risk of endangering the child's emotional, mental or physical welfare.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10144
IN ASSEMBLY
March 12, 2020
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Introduced by M. of A. TAGUE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to protecting children under
the age of eighteen from endangerment
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 260.10 of the penal law, as
2 amended by chapter 447 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. He or she knowingly acts in a manner likely to be injurious to the
5 physical, mental or moral welfare of a child less than [seventeen] eigh-
6 teen years old or directs or authorizes such child to engage in an occu-
7 pation involving a substantial risk of danger to his or her life or
8 health; or
9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
10 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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