NY State Senate Bill 2025-S5943A

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Date of Action	Assembly Actions - Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE
May 27, 2025	print number 5943a
May 27, 2025	amend and recommit to codes
Mar 04, 2025	referred to codes

Bill Amendments

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2025-S5943 - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A5386
Current Committee:: Senate Codes
Law Section:: Executive Law
Laws Affected:: Add §837-z, Exec L

2025-S5943 - Summary

Requires every sheriff, county or city commissioner of correction and head of every state, county, or local police department to report instances and occurrences of hate crimes; requires the division to promulgate rules and regulations for such reporting.

2025-S5943 - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S5943

SPONSOR: COMRIE
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the executive law, in relation to reporting of hate
crimes by law enforcement departments

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

To ensure that hate crime data is accurately reported to federal law
enforcement.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section one: Provides a short title.

Section two: Requires law enforcement to report hate crime data in a
manner prescribed by the department.

Section three: Provides the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Before we can solve a problem, we need to accurately understand its
scope. This was the rationale behind the FBI's implementation of the
National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). Well-intentioned, the
system centralized the scattered world of hate crime reporting into a
central federal database, allowing federal law enforcement to trace hate
incidents in all fifty states. Unfortunately, reporting to this system,
which comes from local police departments, has been spotty and unreli-
able.

Many police departments have not reported their data to the FBI, largely
due to administrative and technical hurdles. The results are harmful for
communities affected by hate crimes - instead of the true number, a
non-report simply gets listed as "zero." As a result of this lack of
understanding as to where hate crimes truly occur, resources, both local
and federal, are misappropriated.

This bill requires police departments to report to federal law enforce-
ment, while also allowing DCJS to set the specifics of the timeline and
implementation, so as to not add undue burdens to law enforcement in
situations where their technical resources are limited.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

None.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:

To be determined.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on January 1, 2026.

2025-S5943 - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5943
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 4, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in  relation  to  reporting  of  hate
   crimes by law enforcement departments
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "hate crime
 accountability and transparency enforcement (HATE) reporting  act".
   § 2. The executive law is amended by adding a  new  section  837-y  to
 read as follows:
   §  837-Y. REPORTING DUTIES OF LAW ENFORCEMENT DEPARTMENTS WITH RESPECT
 TO HATE CRIMES.  1. THE CHIEF OF EVERY POLICE  DEPARTMENT,  EACH  COUNTY
 SHERIFF,  AND  THE  SUPERINTENDENT  OF  STATE  POLICE SHALL REPORT, IN A
 MANNER AND TIMEFRAME AS DETERMINED BY  THE  DIVISION,  ANY  INSTANCE  OR
 OCCURRENCE  IN  WHICH  A HATE CRIME, AS DEFINED IN SECTION 485.05 OF THE
 PENAL LAW, IS REPORTED OR INVESTIGATED.   THE DIVISION  SHALL  USE  SUCH
 REPORTS  FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING DATA TO FEDERAL BUREAUS OR DEPART-
 MENTS ENGAGED IN COLLECTING NATIONAL CRIMINAL STATISTICS, INCLUDING  BUT
 NOT LIMITED TO THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION.
   2.  THE  DIVISION SHALL PROMULGATE RULES AND REGULATIONS TO EFFECTUATE
 THE REPORTING OF HATE CRIME DATA TO  THE  DIVISION  BY  LAW  ENFORCEMENT
 DEPARTMENTS AS REQUIRED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION SUCH
 THAT  THE  DIVISION  MAY  PROVIDE  HATE CRIME DATA TO FEDERAL BUREAUS OR
 DEPARTMENTS ENGAGED IN COLLECTING NATIONAL CRIMINAL STATISTICS,  INCLUD-
 ING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION.
   § 3. This act shall take effect January 1, 2026.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07926-01-5

co-Sponsors

2025-S5943A (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A5386
Current Committee:: Senate Codes
Law Section:: Executive Law
Laws Affected:: Add §837-z, Exec L

2025-S5943A (ACTIVE) - Summary

2025-S5943A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S5943A

SPONSOR: COMRIE
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the executive law, in relation to reporting of hate
crimes by law enforcement departments

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

To ensure that hate crime data is accurately reported to Federal law
enforcement.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section one: Provides a short title.

Section two: Requires law enforcement to report hate crime data in a
manner prescribed by the department.

Section three: Provides the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

Before we can solve a problem, we need to accurately understand its
scope. This was the rationale behind the FBI's implementation of the
National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). Well-intentioned, the
system centralized the scattered world of hate crime reporting into a
central Federal database, allowing Federal law enforcement to trace hate
incidents in all fifty states. Unfortunately, reporting to this system,
which comes from local police departments, has been spotty and unreli-
able.

Many police departments have not reported their data to the FBI, largely
due to administrative and technical hurdles. The older system used to
report these crimes leaves out critical data about the time, place, and
nature of the hate crime. As a result of this lack of understanding as
to where hate crimes truly occur, resources (both local and Federal) are
misappropriated.

This bill requires police departments to report to Federal law enforce-
ment, while also allowing DCJS to set the specifics of the timeline and
implementation, so as to not add undue burdens to law enforcement in
situations where their technical resources are limited.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

None.

 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:

To be determined.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on January 1, 2026.

2025-S5943A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  5943--A
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 4, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Codes  --  committee
   discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
   to said committee
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  executive law, in relation to reporting of hate
   crimes by law enforcement departments

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "hate crime
 accountability and transparency enforcement (HATE) reporting  act".
   §  2.  The  executive  law is amended by adding a new section 837-z to
 read as follows:
   § 837-Z. REPORTING DUTIES OF LAW ENFORCEMENT DEPARTMENTS WITH  RESPECT
 TO  HATE  CRIMES.    1.    EVERY SHERIFF, COUNTY OR CITY COMMISSIONER OF
 CORRECTION  AND  HEAD  OF EVERY STATE,  COUNTY, OR LOCAL POLICE  DEPART-
 MENT, SHALL REPORT TO THE DIVISION, IN A MANNER AND TIMEFRAME AS  DETER-
 MINED BY THE DIVISION, ANY INSTANCE OR OCCURRENCE IN WHICH A HATE CRIME,
 AS  DEFINED  IN SECTION 485.05 OF THE PENAL LAW, IS REPORTED OR INVESTI-
 GATED.  SUCH REPORTS SHALL BE TRANSMITTED TO THE  DIVISION  SUCH    THAT
 THE DIVISION  MAY  PROVIDE SUCH HATE CRIME DATA TO THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF
 INVESTIGATION  IN  A  MANNER  CONSISTENT  WITH  THE  REQUIREMENTS OF THE
 NATIONAL INCIDENT-BASED REPORTING SYSTEM.
   2. THE DIVISION SHALL PROMULGATE RULES AND REGULATIONS  TO  EFFECTUATE
 THE  REPORTING  OF  HATE  CRIME  DATA TO THE DIVISION BY LAW ENFORCEMENT
 DEPARTMENTS AS REQUIRED PURSUANT TO SUBDIVISION ONE OF THIS SECTION.
   § 3. This act shall take effect January 1, 2026.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07926-03-5

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Leroy Comrie

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2025-S5943 - Details

2025-S5943 - Summary

2025-S5943 - Sponsor Memo

2025-S5943 - Bill Text download pdf

co-Sponsors

Robert Jackson

2025-S5943A (ACTIVE) - Details

2025-S5943A (ACTIVE) - Summary

2025-S5943A (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S5943A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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