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A06716 Summary:

BILL NOA06716A
 
SAME ASSAME AS S00089-B
 
SPONSORWallace
 
COSPNSRGriffin, Thiele, Fahy, McDonald, Cusick, McMahon, O'Donnell, Simon, Jacobson, Burgos, Otis, Rosenthal L, Solages, Burdick, Carroll, Glick, Ramos, Cymbrowitz, Sillitti, Fernandez, Dinowitz, Lavine, Zebrowski, Abinanti, Galef, Peoples-Stokes, Bichotte Hermelyn, Darling, Meeks
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Add §§240.78 & 240.79, Pen L
 
Establishes the crimes of making a threat of mass harm and aggravated threat of mass harm.
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A06716 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                         6716--A
 
                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                     March 26, 2021
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. WALLACE, GRIFFIN -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Codes -- recommitted to the Committee on Codes in accord-
          ance  with  Assembly  Rule  3,  sec.  2  -- committee discharged, bill
          amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said  commit-
          tee

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crimes of
          making a threat of mass harm and aggravated threat of mass harm
 
          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 two new sections  240.78
     2  and 240.79 to read as follows:
     3  § 240.78 Making a threat of mass harm.
     4     1.   A person is guilty of making a threat of mass harm when with the
     5  intent to intimidate a group of people or to create public  alarm,  such
     6  person  threatens  to inflict or cause to be inflicted, serious physical
     7  injury or death at a school, place of  worship,  business,    government
     8  building,    or other place of assembly, and thereby causes a reasonable
     9  expectation or fear of  serious physical injury or death, or causes  the
    10  evacuation or lockdown of a school, place of worship, business,  govern-
    11  ment building, or other place of assembly.
    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 conduct threatened.
    15    Making a threat of mass harm is a class B misdemeanor.
    16  § 240.79 Aggravated threat of mass harm.
    17     1.  A  person  is  guilty of aggravated threat of mass harm when such
    18  person engages in conduct as defined in section 240.78 of  this  article
    19  and  has  made  any  overt  act in furtherance of the commission of such
    20  crime.
    21    2. For purposes of this section, an overt act  may  include  making  a
    22  plan  to  carry out such threat, compiling a list of targets, possession
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00980-04-2

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     1  of any weapon or device that can be used to carry out  such  threat,  or
     2  other preparatory action.
     3    Aggravated threat of mass harm is a class A misdemeanor.
     4    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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