Bill Text: NY S00035 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Includes aggravated cemetery desecration in the second degree and aggravated cemetery desecration in the first degree as specified offenses for purposes of hate crimes.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - REFERRED TO CODES [S00035 Detail]
Download: New_York-2025-S00035-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 35 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. TEDISCO, BORRELLO, MARTINS, OBERACKER, PALUMBO, WEIK -- 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 including aggravated ceme- tery desecration in the second degree and aggravated cemetery dese- cration in the first degree as specified offenses for purposes of 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 2 of part C of chapter 55 of the laws of 2024, 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 120.06 7 (gang assault in the second degree); section 120.07 (gang assault in the 8 first degree); section 120.10 (assault in the first degree); section 9 120.12 (aggravated assault upon a person less than eleven years old); 10 section 120.13 (menacing in the first degree); section 120.14 (menacing 11 in the second degree); section 120.15 (menacing in the third degree); 12 section 120.20 (reckless endangerment in the second degree); section 13 120.25 (reckless endangerment in the first degree); section 121.11 14 (criminal obstruction of breathing or blood circulation); section 121.12 15 (strangulation in the second degree); section 121.13 (strangulation in 16 the first degree); subdivision one of section 125.15 (manslaughter in 17 the second degree); subdivision one, two or four of section 125.20 18 (manslaughter in the first degree); section 125.25 (murder in the second 19 degree); section 125.26 (aggravated murder); section 125.27 (murder in 20 the first degree); section 120.45 (stalking in the fourth degree); 21 section 120.50 (stalking in the third degree); section 120.55 (stalking 22 in the second degree); section 120.60 (stalking in the first degree); 23 section 130.20 (sexual misconduct); section 130.25 (rape in the third 24 degree); section 130.30 (rape in the second degree); section 130.35 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00184-01-5S. 35 2 1 (rape in the first degree); former section 130.40; former section 2 130.45; former section 130.50; section 130.52 (forcible touching); 3 section 130.53 (persistent sexual abuse); section 130.55 (sexual abuse 4 in the third degree); section 130.60 (sexual abuse in the second 5 degree); section 130.65 (sexual abuse in the first degree); section 6 130.65-a (aggravated sexual abuse in the fourth degree); section 130.66 7 (aggravated sexual abuse in the third degree); section 130.67 (aggra- 8 vated sexual abuse in the second degree); section 130.70 (aggravated 9 sexual abuse in the first degree); section 135.05 (unlawful imprisonment 10 in the second degree); section 135.10 (unlawful imprisonment in the 11 first degree); section 135.20 (kidnapping in the second degree); section 12 135.25 (kidnapping in the first degree); section 135.60 (coercion in the 13 third degree); section 135.61 (coercion in the second degree); section 14 135.65 (coercion in the first degree); section 140.10 (criminal trespass 15 in the third degree); section 140.15 (criminal trespass in the second 16 degree); section 140.17 (criminal trespass in the first degree); section 17 140.20 (burglary in the third degree); section 140.25 (burglary in the 18 second degree); section 140.30 (burglary in the first degree); section 19 145.00 (criminal mischief in the fourth degree); section 145.05 (crimi- 20 nal mischief in the third degree); section 145.10 (criminal mischief in 21 the second degree); section 145.12 (criminal mischief in the first 22 degree); section 145.26 (aggravated cemetery desecration in the second 23 degree); section 145.27 (aggravated cemetery desecration in the first 24 degree); section 150.05 (arson in the fourth degree); section 150.10 25 (arson in the third degree); section 150.15 (arson in the second 26 degree); section 150.20 (arson in the first degree); section 155.25 27 (petit larceny); section 155.30 (grand larceny in the fourth degree); 28 section 155.35 (grand larceny in the third degree); section 155.40 29 (grand larceny in the second degree); section 155.42 (grand larceny in 30 the first degree); section 160.05 (robbery in the third degree); section 31 160.10 (robbery in the second degree); section 160.15 (robbery in the 32 first degree); section 230.34 (sex trafficking); section 230.34-a (sex 33 trafficking of a child); section 240.25 (harassment in the first 34 degree); subdivision one, two or four of section 240.30 (aggravated 35 harassment in the second degree); section 240.50 (falsely reporting an 36 incident in the third degree); section 240.55 (falsely reporting an 37 incident in the second degree); section 240.60 (falsely reporting an 38 incident in the first degree); subdivision one of section 265.03 (crimi- 39 nal possession of a weapon in the second degree); subdivision one of 40 section 265.04 (criminal possession of a weapon in the first degree); 41 section 490.10 (soliciting or providing support for an act of terrorism 42 in the second degree); section 490.15 (soliciting or providing support 43 for an act of terrorism in the first degree); section 490.20 (making a 44 terroristic threat); section 490.25 (crime of terrorism); section 490.30 45 (hindering prosecution of terrorism in the second degree); section 46 490.35 (hindering prosecution of terrorism in the first degree); section 47 490.37 (criminal possession of a chemical weapon or biological weapon in 48 the third degree); section 490.40 (criminal possession of a chemical 49 weapon or biological weapon in the second degree); section 490.45 (crim- 50 inal possession of a chemical weapon or biological weapon in the first 51 degree); section 490.47 (criminal use of a chemical weapon or biological 52 weapon in the third degree); section 490.50 (criminal use of a chemical 53 weapon or biological weapon in the second degree); section 490.55 (crim- 54 inal use of a chemical weapon or biological weapon in the first degree); 55 or any attempt or conspiracy to commit any of the foregoing offenses. 56 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
