Bill Text: NY S03298 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to extortion or coercion related to immigration status.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-12-28 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S03298 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S03298-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3298
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 5, 2019
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  KAPLAN -- 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  extortion  or  coercion
          related to immigration status
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 4 of  section  135.60  of  the  penal  law,  as
     2  amended  by  section  1 of part NN of chapter 55 of the laws of 2018, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    4. Accuse some person of a crime or cause criminal charges or deporta-
     5  tion proceedings to be instituted against him or her; or
     6    § 2. Subparagraph (iv) of paragraph (e) of subdivision  2  of  section
     7  155.05 of the penal law is amended to read as follows:
     8    (iv) Accuse some person of a crime or cause criminal charges or depor-
     9  tation proceedings to be instituted against him or her; or
    10    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    11  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05019-01-9