Includes community centers with a religious affiliation in the definition of public place for purposes of offenses against public order; includes falsely reporting an incident and placing a false bomb or hazardous substance in the definition of specified offense for the purposes of hate crimes.
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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3990
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 30, 2025
___________
Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to including community
centers with a religious affiliation in the definition of public place
for purposes of offenses against public order; and including placing a
false bomb or hazardous substance in the definition of specified
offense for the purpose of hate crimes
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 240.00 of the penal law, as
amended by chapter 167 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as
follows:
1. "Public place" means a place to which the public or a substantial
group of persons has access, and includes, but is not limited to, high-
ways, transportation facilities, schools, places of amusement, parks,
playgrounds, community centers WITH A RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION, and hall-
ways, lobbies and other portions of apartment houses and hotels not
constituting rooms or apartments designed for actual residence.
§ 2. Subdivision 3 of section 485.05 of the penal law, as amended by
section 2 of part C of chapter 55 of the laws of 2024, is amended to
read as follows:
3. A "specified offense" is an offense defined by any of the following
provisions of this chapter: section 120.00 (assault in the third
degree); section 120.05 (assault in the second degree); section 120.06
(gang assault in the second degree); section 120.07 (gang assault in the
first degree); section 120.10 (assault in the first degree); section
120.12 (aggravated assault upon a person less than eleven years old);
section 120.13 (menacing in the first degree); section 120.14 (menacing
in the second degree); section 120.15 (menacing in the third degree);
section 120.20 (reckless endangerment in the second degree); section
120.25 (reckless endangerment in the first degree); section 121.11
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD06029-02-5
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