Bill Text: NY A05386 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires law enforcement departments to report instances and occurrences of hate crimes; requires the division to promulgate rules and regulations for such reporting; authorizes the division to provide such data to federal bureaus and departments engaged in collecting national crime statistics.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-13 - referred to codes [A05386 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A05386-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5386

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 13, 2025
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        Introduced  by M. of A. BORES -- read once and referred 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:

     1    Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "hate crime
     2  accountability and transparency enforcement (HATE) reporting  act".
     3    § 2. The executive law is amended by adding a  new  section  837-y  to
     4  read as follows:
     5    §  837-y. Reporting duties of law enforcement departments with respect
     6  to hate crimes.  1. The chief of every police  department,  each  county
     7  sheriff,  and  the  superintendent  of  state  police shall report, in a
     8  manner and timeframe as determined by  the  division,  any  instance  or
     9  occurrence  in  which  a hate crime, as defined in section 485.05 of the
    10  penal law, is reported or investigated.   The division  shall  use  such
    11  reports  for the purpose of providing data to federal bureaus or depart-
    12  ments engaged in collecting national criminal statistics, including  but
    13  not limited to the federal bureau of investigation.
    14    2.  The  division shall promulgate rules and regulations to effectuate
    15  the reporting of hate crime data to  the  division  by  law  enforcement
    16  departments as required pursuant to subdivision one of this section such
    17  that  the  division  may  provide  hate crime data to federal bureaus or
    18  departments engaged in collecting national criminal statistics,  includ-
    19  ing but not limited to the federal bureau of investigation.
    20    § 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