Bill Text: NY S02524 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to penalties for the promotion of prison contraband; amends the definition of dangerous contraband; amends the promotion of prison contraband in the first degree to a class C felony.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CODES [S02524 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S02524-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2524

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. HELMING -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the  promotion  of  prison
          contraband

          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 205.00 of the penal law is amended
     2  to read as follows:
     3    4. "Dangerous contraband" means contraband which is  capable  of  such
     4  use  as  may  endanger the safety or security of a detention facility or
     5  any person therein which shall include, but  shall  not  be  limited  to
     6  firearms  and  other  dangerous  weapons as defined in section 265.00 of
     7  this part, destructive  devices  as  defined  in  26  USC  §5845(f)  and
     8  controlled substances as defined in section 220.00 of this part.
     9    § 2. Section 205.25 of the penal law is amended to read as follows:
    10  § 205.25 Promoting prison contraband in the first degree.
    11    A  person is guilty of promoting prison contraband in the first degree
    12  when:
    13    1. He or she knowingly and unlawfully introduces any dangerous contra-
    14  band into a detention facility; or
    15    2. Being a person confined in a detention facility, he or she knowing-
    16  ly and unlawfully makes, obtains or possesses any dangerous contraband.
    17    Promoting prison contraband in the first degree is a class [D] C felo-
    18  ny.
    19    § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05383-01-3