Bill Text: NY S05969 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to the unlawful wearing of body vests.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO CODES [S05969 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-S05969-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5969 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 9, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. GOLDEN -- 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 unlawful wearing of a body vest The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 270.20 of the penal law, as 2 amended by chapter 317 of the laws of 2001, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 1. A person is guilty of the unlawful wearing of a body vest when 5 acting either alone or with one or more other persons he or she wears a 6 body vest and: 7 (a) commits any violent felony offense defined in section 70.02, or 8 any class A felony offense other than one defined in article two hundred 9 twenty, or commits assault or reckless endangerment as those offenses 10 are defined in article one hundred twenty, while possessing or appearing 11 to possess a firearm, rifle [or], shotgun [and in the course of and in12furtherance of such crime he wears a body vest], deadly weapon, danger- 13 ous instrument or ammunition; or 14 (b) commits any violent felony offense as defined in section 70.02 or 15 any class A felony offense other than one defined in article two hundred 16 twenty, having previously been convicted within the preceding ten years 17 of any such offense. 18 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 19 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11530-01-7