Bill Text: NY A09058 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Includes making graffiti within the list of offenses eligible to be charged as a hate crime.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-02-05 - referred to codes [A09058 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09058-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9058

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 5, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to hate crimes

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of  section  485.05  of  the  penal  law,  as
     2  amended  by  section  3  of part R of chapter 55 of the laws of 2020, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    3. A "specified offense" is an offense defined by any of the following
     5  provisions of  this  chapter:  section  120.00  (assault  in  the  third
     6  degree);  section  120.05 (assault in the second degree); section 120.10
     7  (assault in the first degree); section 120.12 (aggravated assault upon a
     8  person less than eleven years old);  section  120.13  (menacing  in  the
     9  first  degree);  section 120.14 (menacing in the second degree); section
    10  120.15 (menacing in the third degree); section 120.20  (reckless  endan-
    11  germent  in the second degree); section 120.25 (reckless endangerment in
    12  the first degree); section 121.12 (strangulation in the second  degree);
    13  section  121.13  (strangulation in the first degree); subdivision one of
    14  section 125.15 (manslaughter in the second degree); subdivision one, two
    15  or four of section 125.20 (manslaughter in the  first  degree);  section
    16  125.25  (murder  in  the second degree); section 120.45 (stalking in the
    17  fourth degree); section 120.50 (stalking in the third  degree);  section
    18  120.55  (stalking in the second degree); section 120.60 (stalking in the
    19  first degree); subdivision one of section  130.35  (rape  in  the  first
    20  degree);  subdivision  one of section 130.50 (criminal sexual act in the
    21  first degree); subdivision one of section 130.65 (sexual  abuse  in  the
    22  first  degree);  paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision  one  of section 130.67
    23  (aggravated sexual abuse in the second degree); paragraph (a) of  subdi-
    24  vision  one  of  section  130.70  (aggravated  sexual abuse in the first
    25  degree); section 135.05 (unlawful imprisonment in  the  second  degree);
    26  section  135.10  (unlawful  imprisonment  in  the first degree); section
    27  135.20 (kidnapping in the second degree); section 135.25 (kidnapping  in
    28  the  first  degree);  section  135.60  (coercion  in  the third degree);
    29  section 135.61 (coercion in the second degree); section 135.65 (coercion

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02783-01-3

        A. 9058                             2

     1  in the first degree); section 140.10 (criminal  trespass  in  the  third
     2  degree);  section  140.15  (criminal  trespass  in  the  second degree);
     3  section 140.17 (criminal trespass in the first degree);  section  140.20
     4  (burglary  in  the third degree); section 140.25 (burglary in the second
     5  degree); section 140.30 (burglary in the first degree);  section  145.00
     6  (criminal  mischief  in  the  fourth  degree);  section 145.05 (criminal
     7  mischief in the third degree); section 145.10 (criminal mischief in  the
     8  second  degree); section 145.12 (criminal mischief in the first degree);
     9  section 145.60 (making graffiti); section 150.05 (arson  in  the  fourth
    10  degree);  section  150.10  (arson  in  the third degree); section 150.15
    11  (arson in the  second  degree);  section  150.20  (arson  in  the  first
    12  degree);  section  155.25 (petit larceny); section 155.30 (grand larceny
    13  in the fourth degree);  section  155.35  (grand  larceny  in  the  third
    14  degree);  section  155.40  (grand larceny in the second degree); section
    15  155.42 (grand larceny in the first degree); section 160.05  (robbery  in
    16  the  third  degree);  section  160.10  (robbery  in  the second degree);
    17  section 160.15 (robbery in the first degree); section 240.25 (harassment
    18  in the first degree); subdivision one[,] or two  [or  four]  of  section
    19  240.30  (aggravated  harassment  in  the  second degree); section 490.10
    20  (soliciting or providing support for an act of terrorism in  the  second
    21  degree);  section  490.15 (soliciting or providing support for an act of
    22  terrorism in the first degree); section  490.20  (making  a  terroristic
    23  threat);  section 490.25 (crime of terrorism); section 490.30 (hindering
    24  prosecution of terrorism in the second degree); section 490.35  (hinder-
    25  ing prosecution of terrorism in the first degree); section 490.37 (crim-
    26  inal  possession  of a chemical weapon or biological weapon in the third
    27  degree); section 490.40 (criminal possession of  a  chemical  weapon  or
    28  biological  weapon  in  the  second  degree);  section  490.45 (criminal
    29  possession of a chemical  weapon  or  biological  weapon  in  the  first
    30  degree); section 490.47 (criminal use of a chemical weapon or biological
    31  weapon  in the third degree); section 490.50 (criminal use of a chemical
    32  weapon or biological weapon in the second degree); section 490.55 (crim-
    33  inal use of a chemical weapon or biological weapon in the first degree);
    34  or any attempt or conspiracy to commit any of the foregoing offenses.
    35    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    36  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
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