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S02551 Summary:

BILL NO	S02551
SAME AS	SAME AS A04595
SPONSOR	HELMING
COSPNSR
MLTSPNSR
Add §240.12, Pen L
Relates to inciting violence against a police officer.

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S02551 Actions:

BILL NO	S02551
01/23/2023	REFERRED TO CODES
01/03/2024	REFERRED TO CODES

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S02551 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          2551
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    January 23, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  Sen. HELMING -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
 
        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to inciting violence  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 240.12  to
     2  read as follows:
     3  § 240.12 Inciting violence against a police officer.
     4    A person is guilty of inciting violence against a police officer when,
     5  with  the intention of inciting or producing imminent violence against a
     6  police officer, he or she advocates violence against one or more  police
     7  officers that is likely to incite or produce such violence.
     8    Inciting violence against a police officer is a class D felony.
     9    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    10  have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05404-01-3

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