Bill Text: NY A01342 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the crimes of spoofing a police agency telephone number in the first and second degrees as a class E felony and a class A misdemeanor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to codes [A01342 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01342-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1342

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 17, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. SILLITTI -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crimes of
          spoofing  a  police  agency  telephone  number in the first and second
          degrees

          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 190.90 to
     2  read as follows:
     3  § 190.90 Spoofing a police agency telephone number in the second degree.
     4    A person is guilty of spoofing a police agency telephone number in the
     5  second degree when, with intent to defraud another person or to  harass,
     6  annoy,  threaten,  or alarm another person, he or she places a telephone
     7  call whereby the ID display of the person receiving the call displays  a
     8  phone  number of a police agency of this state or any political subdivi-
     9  sion of this state or displays any other information that would indicate
    10  that such phone call was placed by a police agency of this state or  any
    11  political subdivision of this state.
    12    Spoofing  a  police  agency telephone number in the second degree is a
    13  class A misdemeanor.
    14    § 2. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 190.95  to  read
    15  as follows:
    16  § 190.95 Spoofing a police agency telephone number in the first degree.
    17    A person is guilty of spoofing a police agency telephone number in the
    18  first degree when he or she commits the crime of spoofing a police agen-
    19  cy  telephone  number in the second degree and he or she has been previ-
    20  ously convicted within the last ten years of spoofing  a  police  agency
    21  telephone  number in the second degree or spoofing a police agency tele-
    22  phone number in the first degree.
    23    Spoofing a police agency telephone number in the  first  degree  is  a
    24  class E felony.
    25    §  3.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    26  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03240-01-3