Bill Text: NY S00033 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 33

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 9-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS [S00033 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00033-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           33

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 4, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sens. GALLIVAN, HELMING, O'MARA -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on  Veter-
          ans, Homeland 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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