Assembly Bill A6792

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Designates offenses against law enforcement officers, firefighters and emergency medical services personnel as hate crimes

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  • 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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2023-A6792 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5339
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §485.05, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S8212
2017-2018: S1114
2019-2020: S335
2021-2022: S1917

2023-A6792 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Designates offenses against law enforcement officers, firefighters and emergency medical services personnel as hate crimes.

2023-A6792 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6792
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 8, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  DeSTEFANO  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal  law,  in  relation  to  designating  offenses
   against  law  enforcement officers, firefighters and emergency medical
   services personnel as hate crimes

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivisions 1, 2 and 4 of section 485.05 of the penal law,
 as  amended  by  chapter  8  of the laws of 2019, are amended to read as
 follows:
   1. A person commits a hate crime when he or she  commits  a  specified
 offense and either:
   (a)  intentionally  selects  the  person  against  whom the offense is
 committed or intended to be committed in whole or  in  substantial  part
 because  of  a  belief  or  perception  regarding  the  (I) race, color,
 national origin, ancestry, gender, gender identity or expression,  reli-
 gion,  religious  practice,  age,  disability or sexual orientation of a
 person OR (II) BECAUSE OF  ACTUAL  OR  PERCEIVED  EMPLOYMENT  AS  A  LAW
 ENFORCEMENT  OFFICER,  A  FIREFIGHTER  OR  AS EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES
 PERSONNEL, regardless of whether the belief or perception is correct, or
   (b) intentionally commits the act or acts constituting the offense  in
 whole or in substantial part because of a belief or perception regarding
 the  (I) race, color, national origin, ancestry, gender, gender identity
 or expression, religion, religious practice, age, disability  or  sexual
 orientation  of  a person OR (II) BECAUSE OF ACTUAL OR PERCEIVED EMPLOY-
 MENT AS A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER, A FIREFIGHTER OR AS EMERGENCY MEDICAL
 SERVICES PERSONNEL, regardless of whether the belief  or  perception  is
 correct.
   2.  Proof  of  race,  color, national origin, ancestry, gender, gender
 identity or expression, religion, religious practice, age, disability or
 sexual orientation OR EMPLOYMENT AS A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER,  A  FIRE-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09116-01-3
              

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