Bill Text: NY S09781 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Designates unlawful fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle in the third degree as a class E felony; designates unlawful fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle in the second degree as a class D violent felony offense; designates unlawful fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle in the first degree as a class B violent felony offense.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-30 - REFERRED TO CODES [S09781 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09781-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                    IN SENATE

                                      May 30, 2024
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        Introduced  by  Sen. MANNION -- 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  "Hoosock
          and  Jensen  law"  which increases the designation of certain offenses
          relating to unlawfully fleeing a police officer

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

     1    Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
     2  the "Hoosock and Jensen law".
     3    § 2. The second undesignated paragraph of section 270.25 of the  penal
     4  law,  as added by chapter 738 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as
     5  follows:
     6    Unlawful fleeing a police officer in a  motor  vehicle  in  the  third
     7  degree is a class [A misdemeanor] E felony.
     8    §  3. The second undesignated paragraph of section 270.30 of the penal
     9  law, as added by chapter 738 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read  as
    10  follows:
    11    Unlawful  fleeing  a  police  officer in a motor vehicle in the second
    12  degree is a class [E] D violent felony offense.
    13    § 4. The second undesignated paragraph of section 270.35 of the  penal
    14  law,  as added by chapter 738 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as
    15  follows:
    16    Unlawful fleeing a police officer in a  motor  vehicle  in  the  first
    17  degree is a class [D] B violent felony offense.
    18    § 5. 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.
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