Bill Text: NY A00835 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the unlawful wearing of a body vest; provides that a person is guilty of the unlawful wearing of a body vest when he or she commits a certain misdemeanor or felony and in the course of and in furtherance of such crime he or she wears a body vest.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to codes [A00835 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A00835-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           835

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 11, 2023
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        Introduced  by M. of A. JACOBSON, COLTON, PEOPLES-STOKES, JEAN-PIERRE --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the  unlawful  wearing  of
          body armor

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of  section  270.20  of  the  penal  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  371  of  the  laws  of 2022, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    1. A person is guilty of the  unlawful  wearing  of  body  armor  when
     5  acting  either alone or with one or more other persons he or she commits
     6  any [violent felony offense defined in section 70.02 while possessing  a
     7  firearm, rifle or shotgun] misdemeanor or felony defined in this chapter
     8  and  in  the  course of and in furtherance of such crime he or she wears
     9  body armor.
    10    § 2. Section 70.25 of the penal law is amended by adding a new  subdi-
    11  vision 2-h to read as follows:
    12    2-h.  Whenever a person is convicted of unlawful wearing of body armor
    13  as defined in section 270.20 of this chapter, the  sentence  imposed  by
    14  the  court  for  such  offense  shall  run consecutively to any sentence
    15  imposed upon conviction of a misdemeanor or felony  offense  defined  in
    16  this chapter arising from the same criminal transaction.
    17    §  3.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    18  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02385-01-3