Bill Text: NY A04420 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides that when property, regardless of its nature and value, is taken from the person of another and the victim is 65 years of age or older or such property is obtained by extortion and the victim is 65 years of age or older, such crimes shall be grand larceny in the third degree and subject to a class D felony.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-14 - held for consideration in codes [A04420 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A04420-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4420--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 14, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. REILLY -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on  Codes  -- recommitted to the Committee on Codes in accordance with
          Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to grand larceny in the third
          degree of a person who is 65 years of age or older

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of  155.35  of the penal law, as added by
     2  section 5 of part O of chapter 56 of the laws of  2024,  is  amended  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    3.  when such person commits deed theft of one commercial real proper-
     5  ty, regardless of the value[.], or
     6    § 2. Section 155.35 of the penal law, as amended by section 5 of  part
     7  O of chapter 56 of the laws of 2024, is amended by adding two new subdi-
     8  visions 4 and 5 to read as follows:
     9    4. the property, regardless of its nature and value, is taken from the
    10  person of another and the victim is sixty-five years of age or older, or
    11    5.  the  property,  regardless of its nature and value, is obtained by
    12  extortion as defined in subparagraphs (iii), (iv), (v), (vi), (vii)  and
    13  (ix) of paragraph (e) of subdivision two of section 155.05 of this chap-
    14  ter and the victim is sixty-five years of age or older.
    15    § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    16  ing  the  date  on  which it shall have become a law; provided, however,
    17  that if section 5 of part O of chapter 56 of the laws of 2024 shall  not
    18  have  taken  effect  on or before such date then section one of this act
    19  shall take effect on the same date and in the same manner as such  chap-
    20  ter of the laws of 2024 takes effect.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09219-02-4