Assembly Bill A10371

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Creates a crime for making a false bomb threat in or upon a school

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-A10371 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S956
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง240.64, Pen L

2009-A10371 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Creates a crime for making a false bomb threat in or upon a school; makes such crime a class A misdemeanor for the first offense and class E felony for multiple offenses.

2009-A10371 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-A10371 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  10371

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 19, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. ALESSI -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Codes

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to making a false bomb threat
  in or upon a school

  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 240.64  to
read as follows:
S 240.64 MAKING A FALSE BOMB THREAT IN OR UPON A SCHOOL.
  1.  A  PERSON  IS  GUILTY  OF  MAKING A FALSE BOMB THREAT IN OR UPON A
SCHOOL WHEN HE OR  SHE  COMMUNICATES,  OR  CAUSES  COMMUNICATION,  TO  A
SCHOOL,  ANY THREAT, NOTICE OR INFORMATION, WHICH BY ITS CHARACTERISTICS
APPEARS TO BE A BOMB THREAT, BUT IS, IN FACT, A FALSE  BOMB  THREAT  AND
WHICH  HE OR SHE KNOWS, INTENDS OR REASONABLY BELIEVES WILL APPEAR TO BE
A BOMB THREAT UNDER CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH IT IS LIKELY TO  CAUSE  ALARM
OR  INCONVENIENCE TO THE SCHOOL. MAKING A FALSE BOMB THREAT IN OR UPON A
SCHOOL IS A CLASS A MISDEMEANOR.
  2. A PERSON GUILTY OF MAKING A FALSE BOMB THREAT IN OR UPON  A  SCHOOL
AND  WHO HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY CONVICTED OF A CRIME OF MAKING A FALSE BOMB
THREAT IN OR UPON A SCHOOL, AS PRESCRIBED IN  SUBDIVISION  ONE  OF  THIS
SECTION, IS GUILTY OF A CLASS E FELONY.
  3.  FOR  PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION THE TERM "SCHOOL" SHALL INCLUDE, ANY
PUBLIC OR PRIVATE ELEMENTARY OR SECONDARY SCHOOL OR COLLEGE, AS  DEFINED
IN  SECTION TWO OF THE EDUCATION LAW, AND THE TERM "COMMUNICATION" SHALL
INCLUDE, BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO ANY WRITTEN,  ELECTRONIC,  TELEPHONIC  OR
SPOKEN COMMUNICATION.
  S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
have become a law.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD05977-01-9

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