Bill Text: NY S00455 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes the crime of terrorism recruitment defined as intentionally soliciting another to engage in acts of terrorism, as a class C felony.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-03-16 - referred to codes [S00455 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S00455-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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455
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
(PREFILED)
January 7, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. MARCELLINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland
Security and Military Affairs
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime of
terrorism recruitment, a class C felony
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 490.60 to
2 read as follows:
3 S 490.60 TERRORISM RECRUITMENT.
4 A PERSON IS GUILTY OF TERRORISM RECRUITMENT WHEN, WITH INTENT THAT
5 ANOTHER PERSON ENGAGE IN CONDUCT CONSTITUTING ANY CRIME SET FORTH IN
6 THIS ARTICLE, HE OR SHE RECRUITS, SOLICITS, REQUESTS, COMMANDS, IMPOR-
7 TUNES OR OTHERWISE ATTEMPTS TO CAUSE SUCH OTHER PERSON TO ENGAGE IN SUCH
8 CONDUCT.
9 TERRORISM RECRUITMENT IS A CLASS C FELONY.
10 S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
11 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02481-01-5
