Bill Text: NY A10944 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the crime of stalking a police officer, peace officer, correction officer or firefighter to include intent to harass, annoy or alarm a police officer, peace officer, correction officer, firefighter or an immediate family member of a police officer, peace officer, correction officer or firefighter, intentionally engaging in a course of conduct directed at such person which is likely to cause such person to reasonably fear physical injury or serious physical injury, the commission of a sex offense against, or the kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment or death of such person or a member of such person's immediate family.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-08-17 - referred to codes [A10944 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10944-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10944

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     August 17, 2020
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Reilly) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to stalking a police officer,
          peace officer, correction officer or firefighter

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 120.65 to
     2  read as follows:
     3  § 120.65 Stalking a police officer, peace officer, correction officer or
     4            firefighter.
     5    A person is guilty  of  stalking  a  police  officer,  peace  officer,
     6  correction  officer  or firefighter when he or she intentionally selects
     7  the person against whom the offense  is  committed  or  intended  to  be
     8  committed in whole or in substantial part because of a belief or percep-
     9  tion  regarding the employment of such person or such person's immediate
    10  family member as a police officer, peace officer, correction officer  or
    11  firefighter,  and  with  intent  to  harass, annoy or alarm such person,
    12  intentionally engages in a course of conduct  directed  at  such  person
    13  which  is likely to cause such person to reasonably fear physical injury
    14  or serious physical injury, the commission of a sex offense against,  or
    15  the  kidnapping,  unlawful  imprisonment  or  death  of such person or a
    16  member of such person's immediate family. Such course of conduct may  be
    17  conducted in person or electronically, including but not limited to, the
    18  use of a social media network.
    19    Stalking  a police officer, peace officer, correction officer or fire-
    20  fighter is a class A misdemeanor.
    21    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    22  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD16775-03-0