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Senate Bill S58

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Establishes the crime of making a terroristic threat against a police officer

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs Committee

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2025-S58 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A4817
Current Committee:
Senate Veterans, Homeland Security And Military Affairs
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add §490.21, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S5349
2017-2018: S1984
2019-2020: S605
2021-2022: S1715, A9157
2023-2024: S33, A4662

2025-S58 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the crime of making a terroristic threat against a police officer; makes such crime a class C felony.

2025-S58 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S58 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    58
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. GALLIVAN, BORRELLO, HELMING, MATTERA, MURRAY, OBER-
   ACKER, O'MARA, PALUMBO, RHOADS -- 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:
 
   Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 490.21  to
 read as follows:
 § 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,  SUCH  PERSON 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.
   § 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.
                                                            LBD00333-01-5

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