S 58: Establishes the crime of making a terroristic threat against a police officer; makes such crime a class C felony.
The bill aims to establish a new crime, making a terroristic threat against a police officer. A person will be guilty of this crime if they intend to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, or influence the policy of a unit of government by intimidation or coercion, and threaten to commit a specified offense against a police officer. This will cause a reasonable expectation or fear of the imminent commission of such an offense against a police officer. The bill removes any defense that the defendant did not have the intent or capability of committing the specified offense or that the threat was not made to a person who was a subject of the threat. This new crime is classified as a class C felony. The law will take effect on the first of November next succeeding the date it becomes law.
| Jan. 07, 2026 | REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS |
| Jan. 08, 2025 | REFERRED TO VETERANS, HOMELAND SECURITY AND MILITARY AFFAIRS |
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 58 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. GALLIVAN, BORRELLO, HELMING, MATTERA, MURRAY, OBER- ACKER, O'MARA, PALUMBO, RHOADS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Veterans, Homeland Security and Military Affairs AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime of making a terroristic threat 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 490.21 to 2 read as follows: 3 § 490.21 Making a terroristic threat against a police officer. 4 1. A person is guilty of making a terroristic threat against a police 5 officer when with intent to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, 6 influence the policy of a unit of government by intimidation or coer- 7 cion, or affect the conduct of a unit of government by murder, assassi- 8 nation or kidnapping, such person threatens to commit or cause to be 9 committed a specified offense against a police officer and thereby caus- 10 es a reasonable expectation or fear of the imminent commission of such 11 offense against a police officer. 12 2. It shall be no defense to a prosecution pursuant to this section 13 that the defendant did not have the intent or capability of committing 14 the specified offense or that the threat was not made to a person who 15 was a subject thereof. 16 Making a terroristic threat against a police officer is a class C 17 felony. 18 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 19 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. LBD00333-01-5