 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1497
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 12, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- 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  establishing  "Jeremiah's
          Law"  relating  to  establishing  the offense of filing a false report
          concerning a minor

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
     2  "Jeremiah's Law".
     3    § 2. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 240.49  to  read
     4  as follows:
     5  § 240.49 Filing a false report concerning a minor.
     6    A person is guilty of filing a false report concerning a minor when he
     7  or  she  falsely reports an incident in the third degree as described in
     8  section 240.50 of this article and the individual  who  is  the  accused
     9  subject of the report is a child under the age of thirteen years.
    10    Filing a false report concerning a minor is a class E felony.
    11    § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    12  ing the date upon which it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03679-01-3
Establishes "Jeremiah's Law"

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