Senate Bill S5648

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to grand larceny in the fourth degree

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2025-S5648 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A3497
Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §155.30, Pen L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
S7599, A7882

2025-S5648 (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-S5648 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S5648 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5648
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 26, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. ASHBY, BORRELLO, MATTERA, OBERACKER, ROLISON, STEC,
   TEDISCO, WEBER -- 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 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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