Senate Bill S7661

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Adds impersonation of board of elections members or other election officers to the crime of criminal impersonation in the first degree

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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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2023-S7661 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8095
Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §190.26, Pen L

2023-S7661 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Adds impersonation of board of elections members or other election officers, or an employee thereof, to the crime of criminal impersonation in the first degree.

2023-S7661 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S7661 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7661
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                            September 20, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. WALCZYK -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation  to  the  crime  of  criminal
   impersonation in the first degree
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 190.26 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 2 of
 the laws of 1998 and subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 434 of the laws
 of 2008, is amended to read as follows:
 § 190.26 Criminal impersonation in the first degree.
   A person is guilty of criminal impersonation in the first degree  when
 he:
   1.  (A)  Pretends  to be a police officer or a federal law enforcement
 officer as enumerated in section 2.15 of the criminal procedure law,  or
 wears  or displays without authority, any uniform, badge or other insig-
 nia or facsimile thereof, by which such police officer  or  federal  law
 enforcement officer is lawfully distinguished or expresses by his or her
 words or actions that he or she is acting with the approval or authority
 of  any police department or acting as a federal law enforcement officer
 with the approval of any agency that  employs  federal  law  enforcement
 officers  as  enumerated  in section 2.15 of the criminal procedure law;
 and
   [2.] (B) So acts with intent to  induce  another  to  submit  to  such
 pretended  official  authority or otherwise to act in reliance upon said
 pretense and in the course of  such  pretense  commits  or  attempts  to
 commit a felony; or
   2.  (A) PRETENDS TO BE A MEMBER OF A BOARD OF ELECTIONS OR AN ELECTION
 OFFICER, AS SUCH TERMS ARE DEFINED BY SECTION 1-104 OF THE ELECTION LAW,
 OR AN EMPLOYEE THEREOF; AND
   (B) SO ACTS WITH INTENT TO CAUSE ANOTHER TO ACT IN RELIANCE UPON  SUCH
 PRETENSE; OR
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13185-02-3

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