Bill Text: NY A07940 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 7940 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Includes hate crimes in the list of offenses as to which the court has discretion to release the principal pending trial, fix bail or commit the principal to the custody of the sheriff.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to codes [A07940 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A07940-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7940

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 2, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. COLTON -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the criminal procedure law, in relation to including
          hate crimes in the  list  of  offenses  as  to  which  the  court  has
          discretion  to release the principal pending trial, fix bail or commit
          the principal to the custody of the sheriff;  and  to  repeal  certain
          provisions of such law relating thereto

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (m) of subdivision 4 of  section  510.10  of  the
     2  criminal  procedure  law is REPEALED and a new paragraph (m) is added to
     3  read as follows:
     4    (m) any offense classified and charged as a hate crime  under  article
     5  four  hundred  eighty-five  of the penal law, regardless of whether such
     6  crime is a misdemeanor or a felony;
     7    § 2. Subparagraph (xiii) of paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of  section
     8  530.20  of the criminal procedure law is REPEALED and a new subparagraph
     9  (xiii) is added to read as follows:
    10    (xiii) any offense classified and charged as a hate crime under  arti-
    11  cle  four  hundred  eighty-five  of the penal law, regardless of whether
    12  such crime is a misdemeanor or a felony;
    13    § 3. Paragraph (m) of subdivision 4 of section 530.40 of the  criminal
    14  procedure  law  is  REPEALED and a new paragraph (m) is added to read as
    15  follows:
    16    (m) any offense classified and charged as a hate crime  under  article
    17  four  hundred  eighty-five  of the penal law, regardless of whether such
    18  crime is a misdemeanor or a felony;
    19    § 4. This act shall take effect immediately.


         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD11238-01-1