Senate Bill S335

2019-2020 Legislative Session

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

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Codes 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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2019-S335 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5065
Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §485.05, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S8212
2017-2018: S1114, A2962
2021-2022: S1917
2023-2024: S5339

2019-S335 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2019-S335 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2019-S335 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    335
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 9, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  AKSHAR -- 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  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
              

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