Assembly Bill A7848

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to an intentional act or course of action that would cause serious physical harm to ten or more people

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-A7848 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2521
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §240.60, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A9784, S7931
2015-2016: A2800, S430
2019-2020: S708

2017-A7848 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to an intentional act or course of action that would cause serious physical harm to ten or more people.

2017-A7848 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7848
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 17, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. LENTOL, PAULIN -- read once and referred 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:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision 5 of section 240.60 of the penal law, as added
 by chapter 561 of the laws of 1999, is amended to read as follows:
   5. Knowing the information reported,  conveyed  or  circulated  to  be
 false  or  baseless and under circumstances in which it is likely public
 alarm or inconvenience will result, he or she initiates or circulates  a
 report or warning of an alleged occurrence or an impending occurrence of
 a  fire,  an explosion, [or] the release of a hazardous substance, OR AN
 INTENTIONAL ACT OR CONTINUING COURSE OF ACTION THAT WOULD CAUSE  SERIOUS
 PHYSICAL HARM TO TEN OR MORE PEOPLE, upon school grounds and it is like-
 ly that persons are present on said grounds.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 

 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00181-01-7

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