Bill Text: NY A09228 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the crime of terrorism recruitment defined as intentionally soliciting another to engage in acts of terrorism, as a class C felony.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-04 - referred to codes [A09228 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A09228-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9228
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 4, 2016
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SEPULVEDA  --  read once and referred to the
          Committee on Codes
        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime  of
          terrorism recruitment, a class C felony
          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 490.60  to
     2  read as follows:
     3  § 490.60 Terrorism recruitment.
     4    A  person  is  guilty  of terrorism recruitment when, with intent that
     5  another person engage in conduct constituting any  crime  set  forth  in
     6  this  article,  he or she recruits, solicits, requests, commands, impor-
     7  tunes or otherwise attempts to cause such other person to engage in such
     8  conduct.
     9    Terrorism recruitment is a class C felony.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    11  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02481-01-5