Bill Text: NY A06086 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Increases the sentencing classification of misdemeanor hate crime offenses or of an attempt or conspiracy to commit a specified offense that is a misdemeanor to a class E felony.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to codes [A06086 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A06086-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6086 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY April 3, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. EICHENSTEIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to increasing the classifica- tion of misdemeanor hate crime offenses to a felony The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 485.10 of the penal law, as added 2 by chapter 107 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows: 3 2. When a person is convicted of a hate crime pursuant to this article 4 and the specified offense is [a misdemeanor or] a class C, D or E felo- 5 ny, the hate crime shall be deemed to be one category higher than the 6 specified offense the defendant committed, or one category higher than 7 the offense level applicable to the defendant's conviction for an 8 attempt or conspiracy to commit a specified offense, whichever is appli- 9 cable. When a person is convicted of a hate crime pursuant to this arti- 10 cle and the specified offense is a misdemeanor or an attempt or conspir- 11 acy to commit a specified offense that is a misdemeanor, the hate crime 12 shall be deemed to be a class E felony. 13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after 14 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10370-02-3
