Bill Text: NY A07986 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to aggravated harassment in the first degree; includes the display of a swastika in public view in aggravated harassment in the first degree.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to codes [A07986 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07986-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          7986

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     August 18, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Codes

        AN  ACT  to amend the penal law, in relation to aggravated harassment in
          the first degree

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  4  of  section  240.31  of the penal law, as
     2  amended by chapter 74 of the  laws  of  2008,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    4. Sets on fire a cross in public view or displays a swastika, common-
     5  ly  exhibited  as  the  emblem  of  Nazi Germany, on a billboard, aerial
     6  display or by a similar method for uninvited public viewing; or
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06606-01-3