S00482 Summary:
BILL NO | S00482A |
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SAME AS | SAME AS A07403-A |
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SPONSOR | LANZA |
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COSPNSR | |
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MLTSPNSR | |
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Add S240.49, Pen L | |
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Creates the crime of falsely accusing someone of a crime. |
S00482 Actions:
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01/07/2009 | REFERRED TO CODES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
01/06/2010 | REFERRED TO CODES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
04/14/2010 | AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CODES | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
04/14/2010 | PRINT NUMBER 482A |
S00482 Floor Votes:
There are no votes for this bill in this legislative session.
Go to topS00482 Text:
Go to top STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 482--A 2009-2010 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 7, 2009 ___________ Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes -- recommitted to the Committee on Codes in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee 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. LBD02996-02-0