A 4145: 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.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4145 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 31, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. TAGUE -- 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: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 260.10 of the penal law, as 2 amended by chapter 447 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 1. [He or she] Such person knowingly acts in a manner likely to be 5 injurious to the physical, mental or moral welfare of a child less than 6 [seventeen] eighteen years old or directs or authorizes such child to 7 engage in an occupation involving a substantial risk of danger to [his 8 or her] the life or health of such child; or 9 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 10 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD06403-01-5