Bill Text: NY S00169 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CODES [S00169 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S00169-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           169
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sens. HELMING, AKSHAR -- 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 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.
                                                                   LBD04840-01-9