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                                   3857
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 31, 2019
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  MAGNARELLI  -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation  to  dissemination  of  false
   information about a missing child
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 240.49  to
 read as follows:
 § 240.49 DISSEMINATION OF FALSE MISSING CHILD INFORMATION.
   A PERSON IS GUILTY OF DISSEMINATION OF FALSE MISSING CHILD INFORMATION
 WHEN,  KNOWING  THE INFORMATION HE OR SHE REPORTED, CONVEYED, CIRCULATED
 OR DISSEMINATED IS FALSE OR BASELESS, HE OR SHE STATES  OR  REPORTS,  BY
 ANY MEANS, THAT A CHILD IS A MISSING CHILD AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION ONE
 OF  SECTION  EIGHT HUNDRED THIRTY-SEVEN-E OF THE EXECUTIVE LAW, AND AS A
 RESULT OF SUCH REPORT, CONVEYANCE, CIRCULATION OR DISSEMINATION,  PUBLIC
 FUNDS  WERE  EXPENDED TO INVESTIGATE AND/OR LOCATE THE PURPORTED MISSING
 CHILD.
   DISSEMINATION OF FALSE MISSING CHILD INFORMATION IS A CLASS E FELONY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
 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.
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