Senate Bill S2655

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Includes bias-related graffiti in hate crimes

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-S2655 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A2319
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง485.05, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S3304
2011-2012: S1842
2013-2014: S951, A8960
2017-2018: S2348, A5143
2019-2020: S4707, A4217
2021-2022: S5072
2023-2024: S6366

2015-S2655 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes bias-related graffiti in hate crimes.

2015-S2655 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S2655 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  2655

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 27, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- 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 bias-related graffiti

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of  section  485.05  of the penal law, as
amended by chapter 405 of the laws  of  2010,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  3. A "specified offense" is an offense defined by any of the following
provisions  of  this  chapter:  section  120.00  (assault  in  the third
degree); section 120.05 (assault in the second degree);  section  120.10
(assault in the first degree); section 120.12 (aggravated assault upon a
person  less  than  eleven  years  old); section 120.13 (menacing in the
first degree); section 120.14 (menacing in the second  degree);  section
120.15  (menacing  in the third degree); section 120.20 (reckless endan-
germent in the second degree); section 120.25 (reckless endangerment  in
the  first degree); section 121.12 (strangulation in the second degree);
section 121.13 (strangulation in the first degree); subdivision  one  of
section 125.15 (manslaughter in the second degree); subdivision one, two
or  four  of  section 125.20 (manslaughter in the first degree); section
125.25 (murder in the second degree); section 120.45  (stalking  in  the
fourth  degree);  section 120.50 (stalking in the third degree); section
120.55 (stalking in the second degree); section 120.60 (stalking in  the
first  degree);  subdivision  one  of  section 130.35 (rape in the first
degree); subdivision one of section 130.50 (criminal sexual act  in  the
first  degree);  subdivision  one of section 130.65 (sexual abuse in the
first degree); paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision  one  of  section  130.67
(aggravated  sexual abuse in the second degree); paragraph (a) of subdi-
vision one of section 130.70  (aggravated  sexual  abuse  in  the  first
degree);  section  135.05  (unlawful imprisonment in the second degree);
section 135.10 (unlawful imprisonment  in  the  first  degree);  section

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD06634-01-5

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