Bill Text: NY S02551 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 2551

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to inciting violence against a police officer.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CODES [S02551 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02551-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2551

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. HELMING -- 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
          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 240.12  to
     2  read as follows:
     3  § 240.12 Inciting violence against a police officer.
     4    A person is guilty of inciting violence against a police officer when,
     5  with  the intention of inciting or producing imminent violence against a
     6  police officer, he or she advocates violence against one or more  police
     7  officers that is likely to incite or produce such violence.
     8    Inciting violence against a police officer is a class D felony.
     9    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    10  have become a law.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05404-01-3