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Assembly Bill A6704

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to criminal mischief in the third degree

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2025-A6704 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §145.05, Pen L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A9526

2025-A6704 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Adds damaging property of another person when that property is an American flag to the definition of criminal mischief in the third degree.

2025-A6704 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6704
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 7, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  TANNOUSIS  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to criminal mischief  in  the
   third 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  145.05  of  the  penal  law,  as
 amended  by chapter 276 of the laws of 2003, is amended and a new subdi-
 vision 3 is added to read as follows:
   2. damages property of another  person  in  an  amount  exceeding  two
 hundred fifty dollars[.]; OR
   3.  DAMAGES PROPERTY OF ANOTHER PERSON WHEN THAT PROPERTY IS AN AMERI-
 CAN FLAG.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09813-01-5

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