Bill Text: NY A06563 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to inciting violence against a police officer.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-03 - held for consideration in codes [A06563 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A06563-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6563

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     March 19, 2021
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        Introduced by M. of A. LAWLER -- read once and referred 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.
                                                                   LBD04545-01-1