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Assembly Bill A8539

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the unlawful wearing of a body vest

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2019-A8539 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§270.20 & 70.25, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A353
2023-2024: A835
2025-2026: A5186

2019-A8539 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the unlawful wearing of a body vest; provides that a person is guilty of the unlawful wearing of a body vest when he or she commits a certain misdemeanor or felony and in the course of and in furtherance of such crime he wears a body vest.

2019-A8539 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8539
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              August 23, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Codes
 
 AN  ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the unlawful wearing of a
   body vest
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section  270.20  of the penal law, as
 amended by chapter 317 of the laws  of  2001,  is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   1.  A  person  is  guilty  of the unlawful wearing of a body vest when
 acting either alone or with one or more other persons he OR SHE  commits
 any  [violent felony offense defined in section 70.02 while possessing a
 firearm, rifle or shotgun] MISDEMEANOR OR FELONY DEFINED IN THIS CHAPTER
 and in the course of and in furtherance of such crime he OR SHE wears  a
 body vest.
   §  2. Section 70.25 of the penal law is amended by adding a new subdi-
 vision 2-h to read as follows:
   2-H. WHENEVER A PERSON IS CONVICTED OF UNLAWFUL WEARING OF A BODY VEST
 AS DEFINED IN SECTION 270.20 OF THIS CHAPTER, THE  SENTENCE  IMPOSED  BY
 THE  COURT  FOR  SUCH  OFFENSE  SHALL  RUN CONSECUTIVELY TO ANY SENTENCE
 IMPOSED UPON CONVICTION OF A MISDEMEANOR OR FELONY  OFFENSE  DEFINED  IN
 THIS CHAPTER ARISING FROM THE SAME CRIMINAL TRANSACTION.
   §  3.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13618-01-9

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