STATE OF NEW YORK
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7627
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 23, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. COONEY -- 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 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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