 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7049
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                     March 20, 2025
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BICHOTTE HERMELYN, MEEKS, ZINERMAN, JACKSON,
          SIMON, GIBBS -- read once and referred 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
     7  such person falsely reports an incident in the third degree as described
     8  in 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.
                                                                   LBD05047-01-5
Establishes "Jeremiah's Law"

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