<STYLE><!--U {color: Green}S {color: RED} I {color: DARKBLUE; background-color:yellow} P.brk {page-break-before:always}--></STYLE> <BASEFONT SIZE=3> <PRE WIDTH="99"> <FONT SIZE=5><B> STATE OF NEW YORK</B></FONT> ________________________________________________________________________ 7627 2025-2026 Regular Sessions <FONT SIZE=5><B> IN SENATE</B></FONT> April 23, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. COONEY -- 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 establishing the crimes of spoofing a police agency telephone number in the first and second degrees <B><U>The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-</U></B> <B><U>bly, do enact as follows:</U></B> 1 Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 190.90 to 2 read as follows: 3 <B><U>§ 190.90 Spoofing a police agency telephone number in the second degree.</U></B> 4 <B><U>A person is guilty of spoofing a police agency telephone number in the</U></B> 5 <B><U>second degree when, with intent to defraud another person or to harass,</U></B> 6 <B><U>annoy, threaten, or alarm another person, such person places a telephone</U></B> 7 <B><U>call whereby the ID display of the person receiving the call displays a</U></B> 8 <B><U>phone number of a police agency of this state or any political subdivi-</U></B> 9 <B><U>sion of this state or displays any other information that would indicate</U></B> 10 <B><U>that such phone call was placed by a police agency of this state or any</U></B> 11 <B><U>political subdivision of this state.</U></B> 12 <B><U>Spoofing a police agency telephone number in the second degree is a</U></B> 13 <B><U>class A misdemeanor.</U></B> 14 § 2. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 190.95 to read 15 as follows: 16 <B><U>§ 190.95 Spoofing a police agency telephone number in the first degree.</U></B> 17 <B><U>A person is guilty of spoofing a police agency telephone number in the</U></B> 18 <B><U>first degree when such person commits the crime of spoofing a police</U></B> 19 <B><U>agency telephone number in the second degree and such person has been</U></B> 20 <B><U>previously convicted within the last ten years of spoofing a police</U></B> 21 <B><U>agency telephone number in the second degree or spoofing a police agency</U></B> 22 <B><U>telephone number in the first degree.</U></B> 23 <B><U>Spoofing a police agency telephone number in the first degree is a</U></B> 24 <B><U>class E felony.</U></B> 25 § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 26 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in <B><U>italics</U></B> (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [<B><S> </S></B>] is old law to be omitted. LBD07953-01-5