STATE OF NEW YORK
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1715
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 14, 2021
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Introduced by Sens. GALLIVAN, AKSHAR, HELMING, O'MARA -- read twice and
ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
Veterans, Homeland Security 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:
1 Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 490.21 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 490.21 Making a terroristic threat against a police officer.
4 1. A person is guilty of making a terroristic threat against a police
5 officer when with intent to intimidate or coerce a civilian population,
6 influence the policy of a unit of government by intimidation or coer-
7 cion, or affect the conduct of a unit of government by murder, assassi-
8 nation or kidnapping, he or she threatens to commit or cause to be
9 committed a specified offense against a police officer and thereby caus-
10 es a reasonable expectation or fear of the imminent commission of such
11 offense against a police officer.
12 2. It shall be no defense to a prosecution pursuant to this section
13 that the defendant did not have the intent or capability of committing
14 the specified offense or that the threat was not made to a person who
15 was a subject thereof.
16 Making a terroristic threat against a police officer is a class C
17 felony.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
19 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.
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