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senate Bill S6920
2019-2020 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
Anna M. Kaplan
(D, IP, WF) 0 Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Codes Committee
- Introduced
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S6920 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Codes
- Law Section:
- Penal Law
- Laws Affected:
- Add §§190.90 & 190.95, Pen L
- Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
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S6920 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S6920 SPONSOR: KAPLAN TITLE OF BILL: 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 PURPOSE: This legislation creates the crime of spoofing a police agency in the second degree a Class A misdemeanor, as well as the crime of spoofing a police agency in the first degree a class E Felony. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1 creates the crime of spoofing a police agency in the second degree when a person with intent to defraud another person, or to harass, annoy, threaten, or alarm another person places a telephone call whereby the ID displays a phone number of a police agency or any other political subdivision of this state, a class A misdemeanor.
S6920 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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6920
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
December 20, 2019
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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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