Bill Text: NY A10958 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes that in addition to other penalties, individuals convicted of hate crimes shall undergo mandatory training or counseling in hate crime prevention and education.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-09-09 - referred to codes [A10958 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A10958-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10958 IN ASSEMBLY September 9, 2020 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Seawright) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to mandated training or coun- seling in hate crime prevention and education for individuals convicted of hate crimes The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 485.10 of the penal law, as added 2 by chapter 158 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows: 3 5. In addition to any of the dispositions authorized by this chapter, 4 the court [may] shall require as part of the sentence imposed upon a 5 person convicted of a hate crime pursuant to this article, that the 6 defendant complete a program, training session or counseling session 7 directed at hate crime prevention and education, where the court deter- 8 mines such program, training session or counseling session is appropri- 9 ate, available and was developed or authorized by the court or local 10 agencies in cooperation with organizations serving the affected communi- 11 ty. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall 13 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD17236-01-0
