Bill Text: NY A03566 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Includes falsely reporting an incident in the third, second, and first degrees as a specified offense for the purposes of hate crimes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 32-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to codes [A03566 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A03566-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3566
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 29, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. ORTIZ -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes
        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to including falsely  report-
          ing an incident as a specified offense for the 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  9 of part NN of chapter 55 of the laws of 2018, 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);
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06270-01-9
        A. 3566                             2
     1  section  135.10  (unlawful  imprisonment  in  the first degree); section
     2  135.20 (kidnapping in the second degree); section 135.25 (kidnapping  in
     3  the  first  degree);  section  135.60  (coercion  in  the third degree);
     4  section 135.61 (coercion in the second degree); section 135.65 (coercion
     5  in  the  first  degree);  section 140.10 (criminal trespass in the third
     6  degree); section  140.15  (criminal  trespass  in  the  second  degree);
     7  section  140.17  (criminal trespass in the first degree); section 140.20
     8  (burglary in the third degree); section 140.25 (burglary in  the  second
     9  degree);  section  140.30 (burglary in the first degree); section 145.00
    10  (criminal mischief in  the  fourth  degree);  section  145.05  (criminal
    11  mischief  in the third degree); section 145.10 (criminal mischief in the
    12  second degree); section 145.12 (criminal mischief in the first  degree);
    13  section  150.05  (arson  in the fourth degree); section 150.10 (arson in
    14  the third degree); section 150.15 (arson in the second degree);  section
    15  150.20  (arson  in  the  first  degree); section 155.25 (petit larceny);
    16  section 155.30 (grand larceny in  the  fourth  degree);  section  155.35
    17  (grand  larceny  in  the third degree); section 155.40 (grand larceny in
    18  the second degree); section 155.42 (grand larceny in the first  degree);
    19  section 160.05 (robbery in the third degree); section 160.10 (robbery in
    20  the  second  degree);  section  160.15  (robbery  in  the first degree);
    21  section 240.25 (harassment in the first degree); subdivision one, two or
    22  four of section 240.30 (aggravated harassment  in  the  second  degree);
    23  section  240.50  (falsely  reporting  an  incident in the third degree);
    24  section 240.55 (falsely reporting an incident  in  the  second  degree);
    25  section  240.60  (falsely reporting an incident in the first degree); or
    26  any attempt or conspiracy to commit any of the foregoing offenses.
    27    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    28  ing the date upon which it shall have become a law.