STATE OF NEW YORK
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6005
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 25, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. GRIFFIN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crimes of
spoofing a police agency telephone number in the first and second
degrees
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 190.90 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 190.90 Spoofing a police agency telephone number in the second degree.
4 A person is guilty of spoofing a police agency telephone number in the
5 second degree when, with intent to defraud another person or to harass,
6 annoy, threaten, or alarm another person, such person places a telephone
7 call whereby the ID display of the person receiving the call displays a
8 phone number of a police agency of this state or any political subdivi-
9 sion of this state or displays any other information that would indicate
10 that such phone call was placed by a police agency of this state or any
11 political subdivision of this state.
12 Spoofing a police agency telephone number in the second degree is a
13 class A misdemeanor.
14 § 2. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 190.95 to read
15 as follows:
16 § 190.95 Spoofing a police agency telephone number in the first degree.
17 A person is guilty of spoofing a police agency telephone number in the
18 first degree when such person commits the crime of spoofing a police
19 agency telephone number in the second degree and such person has been
20 previously convicted within the last ten years of spoofing a police
21 agency telephone number in the second degree or spoofing a police agency
22 telephone number in the first degree.
23 Spoofing a police agency telephone number in the first degree is a
24 class E felony.
25 § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
26 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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