Senate Bill S3227

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Authorizes the combination of certain petit larceny charges

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Current 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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2025-S3227 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A4141
Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §155.30, Pen L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S4857, A5029

2025-S3227 (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-S3227 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S3227 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3227
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 24, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  ORTT  --  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  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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