Assembly Bill A552

                             
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                                    552
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. PHEFFER AMATO, COOK -- read once and referred to
   the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to including certain activity
   in transit and transportation facilities within the crime of  criminal
   trespass in the second degree

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of  section  140.15  of  the  penal  law,  as
 amended  by chapter 315 of the laws of 2010, is amended and a new subdi-
 vision 3 is added to read as follows:
   2. being a person required  to  maintain  registration  under  article
 six-C  of  the  correction law and designated a level two or level three
 offender  pursuant  to  subdivision   six   of   section   one   hundred
 sixty-eight-l  of  the correction law, [he or she] SUCH PERSON enters or
 remains in a public  or  private  elementary,  parochial,  intermediate,
 junior  high,  vocational  or high school knowing that the victim of the
 offense for which such registration  is  required  attends  or  formerly
 attended  such school. It shall not be an offense subject to prosecution
 under this subdivision if: the person is a lawfully  registered  student
 at  such  school; the person is a lawful student participant in a school
 sponsored event; the person is  a  parent  or  a  legal  guardian  of  a
 lawfully registered student at such school and enters the school for the
 purpose  of  attending  their  child's or dependent's event or activity;
 such school is the person's designated polling place  and  [he  or  she]
 SUCH  PERSON  enters  such  school  building  for the limited purpose of
 voting; or if the person enters such school  building  for  the  limited
 purposes authorized by the superintendent or chief administrator of such
 school[.]; OR
   3.  SUCH  PERSON  KNOWINGLY  ENTERS OR REMAINS UNLAWFULLY IN A TRANSIT
 FACILITY AS DEFINED UNDER SECTION TWELVE HUNDRED OF THE PUBLIC  AUTHORI-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

                                                            LBD02402-01-5
 A. 552                              2
 
 TIES  LAW  OR  A TRANSPORTATION FACILITY AS DEFINED UNDER SECTION TWELVE
 HUNDRED SIXTY-ONE OF THE PUBLIC AUTHORITIES LAW.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.