Bill Text: NY S00927 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 927 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to inciting violence against an active duty member of the military or the reserves.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-05-15 - referred to codes [S00927 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S00927-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           927
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 5, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced by Sens. CROCI, SEWARD -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
        AN  ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to inciting violence against
          an active duty member of the military or the reserves
          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 240.12 to
     2  read as follows:
     3  § 240.12 Inciting violence against an active duty member of the military
     4             or the reserves.
     5    A person is guilty of inciting violence against an active duty  member
     6  of  the military or the reserves when, with the intention of inciting or
     7  producing imminent violence against an active duty  member  of  the  New
     8  York  guard,  New  York Naval militia, the United States army, navy, air
     9  force, marines, coast guard, army national  guard,  air  national  guard
    10  and/or the reserves thereof, he or she advocates violence against one or
    11  more such persons that is likely to incite or produce such violence.
    12    Inciting violence against an active duty member of the military or the
    13  reserves is a class D felony.
    14    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    15  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01743-01-7