STATE OF NEW YORK
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708
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 9, 2019
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Introduced by Sens. GALLIVAN, HELMING -- 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 an intentional act or
continuing course of action that would cause serious physical harm to
ten or more people
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 240.60 of the penal law, as added
2 by chapter 561 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as follows:
3 5. Knowing the information reported, conveyed or circulated to be
4 false or baseless and under circumstances in which it is likely public
5 alarm or inconvenience will result, he or she initiates or circulates a
6 report or warning of an alleged occurrence or an impending occurrence of
7 a fire, an explosion, [or] the release of a hazardous substance, or an
8 intentional act or continuing course of action that would cause serious
9 physical harm to ten or more people, upon school grounds and it is like-
10 ly that persons are present on said grounds.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
12 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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