Assembly Bill A3497

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to grand larceny in the fourth degree

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Current 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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2025-A3497 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5648
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §155.30, Pen L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A7882, S7599

2025-A3497 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Adds a person having been previously convicted of petit larceny two times within any three month period or three times within any twelve month period to the definition of grand larceny in the fourth degree.

2025-A3497 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3497
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 28, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in  relation  to  grand  larceny  in  the
   fourth degree
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 12 of section section 155.30 of the penal  law,
 as  added  by section 1 of part FF of chapter 55 of the laws of 2024, is
 amended and a new subdivision 13 is added to read as follows:
   12. The property consists of retail goods or merchandise stolen pursu-
 ant to a common scheme or plan or a single, ongoing  intent  to  deprive
 another  or others of the property or to appropriate the property to the
 actor or another person and the value of the property exceeds one  thou-
 sand  dollars,  which  value may be determined by the aggregate value of
 all such property regardless of whether the goods  or  merchandise  were
 stolen from the same owner. Nothing in this subdivision shall be read to
 limit  the ability to aggregate the value of any property or the ability
 to charge the larceny of  retail  goods  or  merchandise  under  another
 applicable provision of law[.]; OR
   13.  THE  PERSON  HAS  BEEN  PREVIOUSLY  CONVICTED OF PETIT LARCENY AS
 DEFINED IN SECTION 155.25 OF THIS ARTICLE TWO  TIMES  WITHIN  ANY  THREE
 MONTH PERIOD OR THREE TIMES WITHIN ANY TWELVE-MONTH PERIOD.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06674-01-5

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