Bill Text: NY A05226 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the crime of stalking a police officer, peace officer, correction officer or firefighter to include intent to harass, annoy or alarm a police officer, peace officer, correction officer, firefighter or an immediate family member of a police officer, peace officer, correction officer or firefighter, intentionally engaging in a course of conduct directed at such person which is likely to cause such person to reasonably fear physical injury or serious physical injury, the commission of a sex offense against, or the kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment or death of such person or a member of such person's immediate family.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to codes [A05226 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A05226-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5226

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 12, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. REILLY -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to stalking a police officer,
          peace officer, correction officer or firefighter

          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 120.65  to
     2  read as follows:
     3  § 120.65 Stalking a police officer, peace officer, correction officer or
     4            firefighter.
     5    A  person  is  guilty  of  stalking  a  police officer, peace officer,
     6  correction officer or firefighter when he or she  intentionally  selects
     7  the  person  against  whom  the  offense  is committed or intended to be
     8  committed in whole or in substantial part because of a belief or percep-
     9  tion regarding the employment of such person or such person's  immediate
    10  family  member as a police officer, peace officer, correction officer or
    11  firefighter, and with intent to harass,  annoy  or  alarm  such  person,
    12  intentionally  engages  in  a  course of conduct directed at such person
    13  which is likely to cause such person to reasonably fear physical  injury
    14  or  serious physical injury, the commission of a sex offense against, or
    15  the kidnapping, unlawful imprisonment or  death  of  such  person  or  a
    16  member  of such person's immediate family. Such course of conduct may be
    17  conducted in person or electronically, including but not limited to, the
    18  use of a social media network.
    19    Stalking a police officer, peace officer, correction officer or  fire-
    20  fighter is a class A misdemeanor.
    21    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    22  have become a law.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08907-01-1