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Senate Bill S4768

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Includes solicitation or facilitation of certain crimes as a specified offense for the purposes of a hate crime

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2025-S4768 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §485.05, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: S9406
2023-2024: S2371

2025-S4768 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes solicitation or facilitation of certain crimes as a specified offense for the purposes of a hate crime.

2025-S4768 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S4768 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4768
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 12, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  BAILEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to including solicitation  of
   certain crimes as a specified offense for the purposes of a hate crime
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. 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
 (criminal obstruction of breathing or blood circulation); section 121.12
 (strangulation in the second degree); section 121.13  (strangulation  in
 the  first  degree);  subdivision one of section 125.15 (manslaughter in
 the second degree); subdivision one,  two  or  four  of  section  125.20
 (manslaughter in the first degree); section 125.25 (murder in the second
 degree);  section  125.26 (aggravated murder); section 125.27 (murder in
 the first degree); section  120.45  (stalking  in  the  fourth  degree);
 section  120.50 (stalking in the third degree); section 120.55 (stalking
 in the second degree); section 120.60 (stalking in  the  first  degree);
 section  130.20  (sexual  misconduct); section 130.25 (rape in the third
 degree); section 130.30 (rape in  the  second  degree);  section  130.35
 (rape  in  the  first  degree);  former  section  130.40; former section
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08889-01-5

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