Assembly Bill A4141

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Authorizes the combination of certain petit larceny charges

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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-A4141 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3227
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §155.30, Pen L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A5029, S4857

2025-A4141 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that a person who has previously been subjected to two or more petit larceny convictions within 18 months immediately preceding the charge and the aggregate value of the property exceeds one thousand dollars, the person is guilty of grand larceny in the fourth degree.

2025-A4141 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4141
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 31, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. REILLY -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the penal law, in relation to allowing prosecutors to
   combine certain charges
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 12 of 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.  SUCH  PERSON  HAS  PREVIOUSLY BEEN SUBJECTED TO TWO OR MORE PETIT
 LARCENY CONVICTIONS AS DEFINED IN SECTION 155.25 OF THIS ARTICLE  WITHIN
 THE  EIGHTEEN MONTHS IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE CHARGE UNDER THIS SECTION
 AND THE AGGREGATE VALUE OF THE PROPERTY EXCEEDS ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03641-01-5

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