BILL NUMBER: S58
SPONSOR: GALLIVAN
 
TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime of
making a terroristic threat against a police officer
 
PURPOSE:
This bill would establish the crime of making a terroristic threat
against a police officer.
 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1 amends the penal law to create a new section establishing the
crime of making a terroristic threat against a police officer. Making a
terroristic threat against a police officer is a class C felony.
Section 2 states this act shall take effect on the first of November
next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
JUSTIFICATION:
Under current law, making a terroristic threat against any individual is
a class D felony. This bill uses identical language from that section of
the penal law to create a heightened punishment, a class C felony, if
the victim of the terroristic threat is a police officer. Police offi-
cers are frequent targets of these threats, and in order to adequately
deter that activity, a heightened punishment for making a terroristic
threat against a police officer is necessary.
 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2023-24: S.33/A.4662 Referred to Veterans, Homeland Security and Mili-
tary Affairs/Held in codes
2021-22: S.1715/A.9157 Referred to Veterans, Homeland Security and Mili-
tary Affairs/Held in codes
2019-20: S.605 Referred to Veterans, Homeland Security and Military
Affairs
2017-18: S.1984 Passed Senate
2016: S.5349 Passed Senate/Referred to Codes
2015: S.5349 Passed Senate/Referred to Codes
 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None to the state.
 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeeding the
date on which it shall have become a law.