Bill Text: NY S06066 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 6066 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Enacts the "hate crimes analysis and review act", specifying the collection and reporting of certain demographic data regarding the victims and alleged perpetrators of hate crimes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-12-28 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S06066 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6066--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 16, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  HOYLMAN, RAMOS, SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on  Finance
          --  committee  discharged,  bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended
          and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation  to  enacting  the  "hate
          crimes analysis and review act"

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

     1    Section 1. This act shall be known and  may  be  cited  as  the  "hate
     2  crimes analysis and review act".
     3    §  2. Subdivision 4-c of section 837 of the executive law, as added by
     4  chapter 107 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
     5    4-c. (a) In cooperation with the chief administrator of the courts  as
     6  well  as  any  other public or private agency, including law enforcement
     7  agencies, collect [and], maintain, analyze and make  public  statistical
     8  and  all  other  information and data with respect to the number of hate
     9  crimes reported to or investigated by the division of state police,  and
    10  all  other  police or peace officers, the number of persons arrested for
    11  the commission of such crimes, the offense  for  which  the  person  was
    12  arrested,  the  demographic data of the victim or victims of such crimes
    13  including, but not limited to, race, color, national  origin,  ancestry,
    14  gender,  religion,  religious  practice,  age, disability, sexual orien-
    15  tation of a person, regardless of whether the belief  or  perception  is
    16  correct,  or  gender identity or expression, the demographic data of the
    17  person or persons arrested for the commission of such crimes  including,
    18  but  not  limited  to,  race,  color, national origin, ancestry, gender,
    19  religion, religious practice, age, disability, sexual orientation  of  a
    20  person,  regardless  of  whether the belief or perception is correct, or
    21  gender identity or expression, the county within which  the  arrest  was
    22  made and the accusatory instrument filed, the disposition of the accusa-
    23  tory  instrument  filed,  including, but not limited to, as the case may

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11382-02-9

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     1  be, dismissal, acquittal, the offense to which the defendant pled  guil-
     2  ty,  the  offense  the  defendant  was convicted of after trial, and the
     3  sentence imposed. Data collected shall be used for research  or  statis-
     4  tical  purposes  only  and shall not contain information that may reveal
     5  the identity of any individual. The division shall include  the  statis-
     6  tics  and  other  information  required  by this subdivision in [the] an
     7  annual report submitted to the governor  [and  legislature  pursuant  to
     8  subdivision  twelve  of  this  section], the chair of the assembly codes
     9  committee, the chair of the senate codes committee, the attorney general
    10  and the chief administrative judge  of  the  office  of  court  adminis-
    11  tration. Such annual reports shall be a public record.
    12    (b)  As used in this section, the term "gender identity or expression"
    13  means a person's actual or perceived  gender-related  identity,  appear-
    14  ance,  behavior,  expression,  or  other  gender-related  characteristic
    15  regardless of the sex assigned to such person at birth,  including,  but
    16  not limited to, the status of being transgender.
    17    §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
    18  have become a law.