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S5349Senate2015-2016 Session

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

Sponsor Patrick M. GallivanSD-59+8 co-sponsorsAffects Legal
Status
In Assembly Committee
Codes
Impact
Pending
Passage
Pending

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Patrick M. Gallivan

Senator · Senate District 59

Chair, Crime Victims, Crime And Correction

History

  1. Referred to codes
  2. Delivered to assembly
  3. Passed senateVote 52–8
  4. Advanced to third reading
  5. 2nd report cal.
  6. 1st report cal.4
  7. Referred to veterans, homeland security and military affairs
  8. Returned to senate
  9. Died in assembly
  10. Referred to codes
  11. Delivered to assembly
  12. Passed senateVote 53–9
Show 4 earlier actions
  1. Advanced to third reading
  2. 2nd report cal.
  3. 1st report cal.1090
  4. Referred to veterans, homeland security and military affairs

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Sponsor's memo

BILL NUMBER:S5349

Title of bill

An act to amend the penal law, in relation to establish- ing the crime of making a terroristic threat against a police officer

Purpose

This bill would establish the crime of making a terroristic threat against a police officer.

Summary of provisions

Section 1 amends the penal law to create a new section establishing the crime of making a terroristic threat against a police officer. Making a terroristic threat against a police officer is a class C felony.

Section 2 states this act shall take effect on the first of November next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.

Justification

Under current law, making a terroristic threat against any individual is a class D felony. This bill uses identical language from that section of the penal law to create a heightened punishment, a class C felony, if the victim of the terroristic threat is a police officer. Police offi- cers are frequent targets of these threats, and in order to adequately deter that activity, a heightened punishment for making a terroristic threat against a police officer is necessary.

Legislative history

New bill.

Fiscal implications

None to the state.

Effective date

This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.

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