Bill Text: NY S01715 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS [S01715 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S01715-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1715

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 14, 2021
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        Introduced  by Sens. GALLIVAN, AKSHAR, HELMING, O'MARA -- 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
          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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