1. (a) A person is guilty of falsely reporting an incident resulting in serious physical injury or death when such person commits the crime of falsely reporting an incident in the first degree as provided in section 53a-180 or falsely reporting an incident in the second degree as provided in section 53a-180c, and such false report results in the serious physical injury or death of another person.
2. (b) Falsely reporting an incident resulting in serious physical injury or death is a class C felony.

(P.A. 81-353, S. 2; P.A. 92-260, S. 67; Nov. 15 Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-2, S. 3, 9.)

History: P.A. 92-260 amended Subsec. (b) to make technical changes in the name of the offense; Nov. 15 Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-2 amended Subsec. (a) to make a technical change for purposes of gender neutrality, replace reference to the crime of “falsely reporting an incident as provided in section 53a-180” with “falsely reporting an incident in the first degree as provided in section 53a-180” and add reference to the crime of “falsely reporting an incident in the second degree as provided in section 53a-180c” and amended Subsec. (b) to increase the penalty from a class D to a class C felony, effective January 1, 2002.