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Sep 09, 2020 |
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Assembly Bill A10970
2019-2020 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
BUTTENSCHON
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2019-A10970 (ACTIVE) - Details
2019-A10970 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Creates the crime of stalking a police officer or peace officer when a person intentionally, and for no legitimate purpose, engages in a course of conduct directed at a specific police officer, peace officer or a person who he or she knows or reasonably should know is a member of such officer's immediate family, and knows or reasonably should know that such conduct is likely to cause reasonable fear of material harm to the physical health, safety or property of such officer or member of such officer's immediate family; makes stalking a police officer or peace officer a class E felony; requires the posting of bail; makes related provisions.
2019-A10970 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 10970 I N A S S E M B L Y September 9, 2020 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Buttenschon) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law and the criminal procedure law, in relation to creating the crime of stalking a police officer or peace officer THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 120.40 of the penal law, as added by chapter 635 of the laws of 1999, paragraph b of subdivision 5 as amended by chapter 320 of the laws of 2006 and paragraph c of subdivision 5 as amended by section 7 of part NN of chapter 55 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows: § 120.40 Definitions. For purposes of sections 120.45, 120.50, 120.55 [and], 120.60 AND 120.80 of this article: 1. "Kidnapping" shall mean a kidnapping crime defined in article one hundred thirty-five of this chapter. 2. "Unlawful imprisonment" shall mean an unlawful imprisonment felony crime defined in article one hundred thirty-five of this chapter. 3. "Sex offense" shall mean a felony defined in article one hundred thirty of this chapter, sexual misconduct, as defined in section 130.20 of this chapter, sexual abuse in the third degree as defined in section 130.55 of this chapter or sexual abuse in the second degree as defined in section 130.60 of this chapter. 4. "Immediate family" means the spouse, former spouse, parent, child, sibling, or any other person who regularly resides or has regularly resided in the household of a person. 5. "Specified predicate crime" means: a. a violent felony offense; b. a crime defined in section 130.20, 130.25, 130.30, 130.40, 130.45, 130.55, 130.60, 130.70, 255.25, 255.26 or 255.27; c. assault in the third degree, as defined in section 120.00; menacing in the first degree, as defined in section 120.13; menacing in the second degree, as defined in section 120.14; coercion in the first EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
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