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S00364 Summary:

BILL NO	S00364
SAME AS	No Same As
SPONSOR	LANZA
COSPNSR	AKSHAR
MLTSPNSR
Add §240.49, Pen L
Creates the crime of falsely accusing someone of a crime.

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S00364 Actions:

BILL NO	S00364
01/09/2019	REFERRED TO CODES
01/08/2020	REFERRED TO CODES

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S00364 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                           364
 
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                       (Prefiled)
 
                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
 
        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.
                                                                   LBD03267-01-9

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