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Senate Bill S7301

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to desecration of property commemorating a historical figure

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2025-S7301 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A4933
Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add §145.75, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: S7567, A8799
2019-2020: S3990, A4976
2021-2022: S5721, A4020
2023-2024: S6578, A6532

2025-S7301 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Makes desecration of property commemorating a historical figure a class C felony.

2025-S7301 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S7301 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7301
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               April 9, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. GALLIVAN -- 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  desecration  of  property
   commemorating a historical figure
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 145.75  to
 read as follows:
 § 145.75 DESECRATION OF PROPERTY COMMEMORATING A HISTORICAL FIGURE.
   A  PERSON IS GUILTY OF DESECRATION OF PROPERTY COMMEMORATING A HISTOR-
 ICAL FIGURE WHEN WITH INTENT TO DAMAGE PROPERTY OF ANOTHER  PERSON,  AND
 HAVING  NO RIGHT TO DO SO NOR ANY REASONABLE GROUND TO BELIEVE THAT THEY
 HAVE SUCH RIGHT, SUCH PERSON:
   (A) DAMAGES ANY REAL OR PERSONAL PROPERTY, INCLUDING BUT  NOT  LIMITED
 TO  ANY  COMMEMORATIVE  MONUMENT, MARKER OR STREET SIGN, RELATING TO ANY
 PERSON, LIVING OR DEAD, WHO HAS HISTORICAL OR CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE; OR
   (B) WITH  INTENT  TO  STEAL  PERSONAL  PROPERTY,  SUCH  PERSON  STEALS
 PERSONAL  PROPERTY, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY COMMEMORATIVE MONU-
 MENT, MARKER OR STREET SIGN, RELATING TO ANY PERSON, LIVING OR DEAD, WHO
 HAS HISTORICAL OR CULTURAL SIGNIFICANCE.
   DESECRATION OF PROPERTY COMMEMORATING A HISTORICAL FIGURE IS A CLASS C
 FELONY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07256-01-5

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