Assembly Bill A2962A

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Designates offenses against law enforcement officers, firefighters and emergency medical services personnel as hate crimes

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  • 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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Bill Amendments

2017-A2962 - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1114
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §485.05, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S8212
2019-2020: A5065, S335
2021-2022: S1917
2023-2024: S5339

2017-A2962 - Summary

Designates offenses against law enforcement officers, firefighters and emergency medical services personnel as hate crimes.

2017-A2962 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2962
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 23, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  penal  law, in relation to designating offenses
   against law enforcement officers, firefighters and  emergency  medical
   services personnel as hate crimes
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivisions 1, 2 and 4 of section 485.05 of the penal law,
 as added by chapter 107 of the laws of 2000,  are  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   1.  A  person  commits a hate crime when he or she commits a specified
 offense and either:
   (a) intentionally selects the  person  against  whom  the  offense  is
 committed  or  intended  to be committed in whole or in substantial part
 because of a  belief  or  perception  regarding  (I)  the  race,  color,
 national  origin,  ancestry,  gender, religion, religious practice, age,
 disability or sexual orientation of a person OR (II) BECAUSE  OF  ACTUAL
 OR  PERCEIVED  EMPLOYMENT AS A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER, A FIREFIGHTER OR
 AS EMERGENCY MEDICAL  SERVICES  PERSONNEL,  regardless  of  whether  the
 belief or perception is correct, or
   (b)  intentionally commits the act or acts constituting the offense in
 whole or in substantial part because of a belief or perception regarding
 (I) the race, color, national origin, ancestry, gender, religion,  reli-
 gious  practice,  age,  disability  or sexual orientation of a person OR
 (II) BECAUSE OF ACTUAL OR PERCEIVED  EMPLOYMENT  AS  A  LAW  ENFORCEMENT
 OFFICER,  A  FIREFIGHTER  OR  AS  EMERGENCY  MEDICAL SERVICES PERSONNEL,
 regardless of whether the belief or perception is correct.
   (C) PROVIDED, HOWEVER, SUBPARAGRAPH (II) OF PARAGRAPH (A) AND SUBPARA-
 GRAPH (II) OF PARAGRAPH (B) OF THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL  NOT  APPLY  WHERE
 THE SPECIFIED OFFENSE IS COMMITTED BY AN INMATE IN A CORRECTIONAL FACIL-
 ITY  AGAINST  A  COUNTY  OR  STATE  CORRECTIONAL  OFFICER OR FEDERAL LAW
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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2017-A2962A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1114
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §485.05, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S8212
2019-2020: A5065, S335
2021-2022: S1917
2023-2024: S5339

2017-A2962A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Designates offenses against law enforcement officers, firefighters and emergency medical services personnel as hate crimes.

2017-A2962A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  2962--A
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 23, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on  Codes  -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
   amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal  law,  in  relation  to  designating  offenses
   against  law  enforcement officers, firefighters and emergency medical
   services personnel as hate crimes
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivisions 1, 2 and 4 of section 485.05 of the penal law,
 as  added  by  chapter  107  of the laws of 2000, are amended to read as
 follows:
   1. A person commits a hate crime when he or she  commits  a  specified
 offense and either:
   (a)  intentionally  selects  the  person  against  whom the offense is
 committed or intended to be committed in whole or  in  substantial  part
 because  of  a  belief  or  perception  regarding  (I)  the race, color,
 national origin, ancestry, gender, religion,  religious  practice,  age,
 disability  or  sexual orientation of a person OR (II) BECAUSE OF ACTUAL
 OR PERCEIVED EMPLOYMENT AS A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER, A  FIREFIGHTER  OR
 AS  EMERGENCY  MEDICAL  SERVICES  PERSONNEL,  regardless  of whether the
 belief or perception is correct, or
   (b) intentionally commits the act or acts constituting the offense  in
 whole or in substantial part because of a belief or perception regarding
 (I)  the race, color, national origin, ancestry, gender, religion, reli-
 gious practice, age, disability or sexual orientation  of  a  person  OR
 (II)  BECAUSE  OF  ACTUAL  OR  PERCEIVED EMPLOYMENT AS A LAW ENFORCEMENT
 OFFICER, A FIREFIGHTER  OR  AS  EMERGENCY  MEDICAL  SERVICES  PERSONNEL,
 regardless of whether the belief or perception is correct.
   2.  Proof of race, color, national origin, ancestry, gender, religion,
 religious practice, age, disability or sexual orientation OR  EMPLOYMENT
 AS  A  LAW  ENFORCEMENT  OFFICER,  A FIREFIGHTER OR AS EMERGENCY MEDICAL
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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