Bill Text: NY S00605 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 605 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Establishes the crime of making a terroristic threat against a police officer; makes such crime a class C felony.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS [S00605 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S00605-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           605
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced by Sens. GALLIVAN, HELMING -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and  when  printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Home-
          land Security and Military Affairs
        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime  of
          making a terroristic threat against a police officer
          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 490.21  to
     2  read as follows:
     3  § 490.21 Making a terroristic threat against a police officer.
     4    1.  A person is guilty of making a terroristic threat against a police
     5  officer when with intent to intimidate or coerce a civilian  population,
     6  influence  the  policy  of a unit of government by intimidation or coer-
     7  cion, or affect the conduct of a unit of government by murder,  assassi-
     8  nation  or  kidnapping,  he  or  she  threatens to commit or cause to be
     9  committed a specified offense against a police officer and thereby caus-
    10  es a reasonable expectation or fear of the imminent commission  of  such
    11  offense against a police officer.
    12    2.  It  shall  be no defense to a prosecution pursuant to this section
    13  that the defendant did not have the intent or capability  of  committing
    14  the  specified  offense  or that the threat was not made to a person who
    15  was a subject thereof.
    16    Making a terroristic threat against a police  officer  is  a  class  C
    17  felony.
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    19  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.
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