Senate Bill S956

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-S956 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10371
Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง240.64, Pen L

2009-S956 (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-S956 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-S956 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                   956

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 22, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sens.  C. JOHNSON,  AUBERTINE,  DIAZ,  ONORATO, SAMPSON,
  STACHOWSKI, VALESKY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when print-
  ed to be committed 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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