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Senate Bill S6920

2019-2020 Legislative Session

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

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2019-S6920 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add §§190.90 & 190.95, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S388
2025-2026: S7627

2019-S6920 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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.

2019-S6920 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S6920 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6920
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             December 20, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  KAPLAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 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:
 
   Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 190.90  to
 read as follows:
 § 190.90 SPOOFING A POLICE AGENCY TELEPHONE NUMBER IN THE SECOND DEGREE.
   A PERSON IS GUILTY OF SPOOFING A POLICE AGENCY TELEPHONE NUMBER IN THE
 SECOND  DEGREE WHEN, WITH INTENT TO DEFRAUD ANOTHER PERSON OR TO HARASS,
 ANNOY, THREATEN, OR ALARM ANOTHER PERSON, HE OR SHE PLACES  A  TELEPHONE
 CALL  WHEREBY THE ID DISPLAY OF THE PERSON RECEIVING THE CALL DISPLAYS A
 PHONE NUMBER OF A POLICE AGENCY OF THIS STATE OR ANY POLITICAL  SUBDIVI-
 SION OF THIS STATE OR DISPLAYS ANY OTHER INFORMATION THAT WOULD INDICATE
 THAT  SUCH PHONE CALL WAS PLACED BY A POLICE AGENCY OF THIS STATE OR ANY
 POLITICAL SUBDIVISION OF THIS STATE.
   SPOOFING A POLICE AGENCY TELEPHONE NUMBER IN THE SECOND  DEGREE  IS  A
 CLASS A MISDEMEANOR.
   §  2.  The penal law is amended by adding a new section 190.95 to read
 as follows:
 § 190.95 SPOOFING A POLICE AGENCY TELEPHONE NUMBER IN THE FIRST DEGREE.
   A PERSON IS GUILTY OF SPOOFING A POLICE AGENCY TELEPHONE NUMBER IN THE
 FIRST DEGREE WHEN HE OR SHE COMMITS THE CRIME OF SPOOFING A POLICE AGEN-
 CY TELEPHONE NUMBER IN THE SECOND DEGREE AND HE OR SHE HAS  BEEN  PREVI-
 OUSLY  CONVICTED  WITHIN  THE LAST TEN YEARS OF SPOOFING A POLICE AGENCY
 TELEPHONE NUMBER IN THE SECOND DEGREE OR SPOOFING A POLICE AGENCY  TELE-
 PHONE NUMBER IN THE FIRST DEGREE.
   SPOOFING  A  POLICE  AGENCY  TELEPHONE NUMBER IN THE FIRST DEGREE IS A
 CLASS E FELONY.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.

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