Senate Bill S4811

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Makes graffiti a hate crime

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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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2021-S4811 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A3730
Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §485.05, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S4777, A6590
2019-2020: S3750, A2647
2023-2024: A9058

2021-S4811 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes making graffiti within hate crimes.

2021-S4811 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S4811 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4811
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 12, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. REICHLIN-MELNICK -- 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 hate crimes
 
   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 section 3 of part R of chapter 55 of the  laws  of  2020,  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.
              

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