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Assembly Bill A10124

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Prohibits youthful offender status for persons who commit a hate crime

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2025-A10124 (ACTIVE) - Details

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Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §720.10, CP L

2025-A10124 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Prohibits youthful offender status for persons who commit a hate crime.

2025-A10124 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10124
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 2, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. NOVAKHOV -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Codes
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  penal  law, in relation to prohibiting youthful
   offender status for persons who commit a hate crime
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of subdivision 2 of section 720.10 of the
 criminal procedure law, as amended by chapter 23 of the laws of 2024, is
 amended to read as follows:
   (a) the conviction to be replaced by a youthful  offender  finding  is
 for  (i)  a  class  A-I or class A-II felony, or (ii) an armed felony as
 defined in subdivision forty-one of section 1.20, except as provided  in
 subdivision  three,  or (iii) rape in the first degree, a crime formerly
 defined in section 130.50 of the penal law, or the crime  of  aggravated
 sexual  abuse,  except  as provided in subdivision three, or (IV) A HATE
 CRIME AS DEFINED IN SECTION 485.05 OF THE PENAL LAW, OR
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD14599-01-6

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