Assembly Bill A2320

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to protecting children under the age of eighteen from endangerment

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • 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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2023-A2320 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §260.10, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A10144
2021-2022: A3865

2023-A2320 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes legislation to protect children under the age of eighteen from inappropriate communication which creates the foreseeable risk of endangering the child's emotional, mental or physical welfare.

2023-A2320 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2320
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 25, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. TAGUE, BRABENEC, COLTON -- read once and referred
   to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN  ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to protecting children under
   the age of eighteen from endangerment
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section  260.10  of the penal law, as
 amended by chapter 447 of the laws  of  2010,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   1.  He or she knowingly acts in a manner likely to be injurious to the
 physical, mental or moral welfare of a child less than [seventeen] EIGH-
 TEEN years old or directs or authorizes such child to engage in an occu-
 pation involving a substantial risk of danger to  his  or  her  life  or
 health; or
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05749-01-3

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