Senate Bill S5349

2015-2016 Legislative Session

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

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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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2015-S5349 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง490.21, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S1984
2019-2020: S605
2021-2022: S1715
2023-2024: S33
2025-2026: S58

2015-S5349 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2015-S5349 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S5349 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  5349

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                              May 13, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by Sen. GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Securi-
  ty 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:
S 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,  HE  OR  SHE  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.
  S 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.
                                                           LBD11015-01-5

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