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| Mar 16, 2016 | referred to codes delivered to assembly passed senate |
| Jan 20, 2016 | advanced to third reading |
| Jan 12, 2016 | 2nd report cal. |
| Jan 11, 2016 | 1st report cal.4 |
| Jan 06, 2016 | referred to veterans, homeland security and military affairs returned to senate died in assembly |
| Jun 15, 2015 | referred to codes delivered to assembly passed senate |
| Jun 03, 2015 | advanced to third reading |
| Jun 02, 2015 | 2nd report cal. |
| Jun 01, 2015 | 1st report cal.1090 |
| May 13, 2015 | referred to veterans, homeland security and military affairs |
senate Bill S5349
2015-2016 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
Patrick M. Gallivan
(R, C) 60th Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - Passed Senate
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John A. DeFrancisco
(R, C, IP) 0 Senate District
Rich Funke
(R, C, IP) 0 Senate District
Martin J. Golden
(R, C, IP) 0 Senate District
William J. Larkin, Jr.
(R, C) 0 Senate District
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Terrence Murphy
(R, C, G, IP, SC) 0 Senate District
Michael F. Nozzolio
(R, C, IP) 0 Senate District
Thomas F. O'Mara
(R, C) 58th Senate District
James L. Seward
(R, C, IP, RFM) 0 Senate District
S5349 (ACTIVE) - Details
S5349 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S5349 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the penal law, in relation to establish- ing the crime of making a terroristic threat against a police officer PURPOSE: This bill would establish the crime of making a terroristic threat against a police officer. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1 amends the penal law to create a new section establishing the crime of making a terroristic threat against a police officer. Making a terroristic threat against a police officer is a class C felony. Section 2 states this act shall take effect on the first of November next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law. JUSTIFICATION: Under current law, making a terroristic threat against any individual is a class D felony. This bill uses identical language from that section of the penal law to create a heightened punishment, a class C felony, if the victim of the terroristic threat is a police officer. Police offi- cers are frequent targets of these threats, and in order to adequately
S5349 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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5349
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
May 13, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
ty 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:
Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 490.21 to
read as follows:
S 490.21 MAKING A TERRORISTIC THREAT AGAINST A POLICE OFFICER.
1. A PERSON IS GUILTY OF MAKING A TERRORISTIC THREAT AGAINST A POLICE
OFFICER WHEN WITH INTENT TO INTIMIDATE OR COERCE A CIVILIAN POPULATION,
INFLUENCE THE POLICY OF A UNIT OF GOVERNMENT BY INTIMIDATION OR COER-
CION, OR AFFECT THE CONDUCT OF A UNIT OF GOVERNMENT BY MURDER, ASSASSI-
NATION OR KIDNAPPING, HE OR SHE THREATENS TO COMMIT OR CAUSE TO BE
COMMITTED A SPECIFIED OFFENSE AGAINST A POLICE OFFICER AND THEREBY CAUS-
ES A REASONABLE EXPECTATION OR FEAR OF THE IMMINENT COMMISSION OF SUCH
OFFENSE AGAINST A POLICE OFFICER.
2. IT SHALL BE NO DEFENSE TO A PROSECUTION PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION
THAT THE DEFENDANT DID NOT HAVE THE INTENT OR CAPABILITY OF COMMITTING
THE SPECIFIED OFFENSE OR THAT THE THREAT WAS NOT MADE TO A PERSON WHO
WAS A SUBJECT THEREOF.
MAKING A TERRORISTIC THREAT AGAINST A POLICE OFFICER IS A CLASS C
FELONY.
S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
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.
LBD11015-01-5
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