Enacts the "hate crimes analysis and review act", specifying the collection and reporting of certain demographic data regarding the victims and alleged perpetrators of hate crimes.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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Cal. No. 200
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 14, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. REYES, DE LA ROSA, J. RIVERA, FERNANDEZ, COLTON,
GOTTFRIED, McDONOUGH, GLICK, RICHARDSON, ROZIC, FALL, GRIFFIN, HEVESI,
CRUZ, OTIS, VANEL, JACOBSON, PAULIN, BURGOS, MEEKS, GONZALEZ-ROJAS,
ANDERSON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes --
reported and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means -- reported
from committee, advanced to a third reading, amended and ordered
reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third reading
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to enacting the "hate
crimes analysis and review act"
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "hate
2 crimes analysis and review act".
3 § 2. Subdivision 4-c of section 837 of the executive law, as added by
4 chapter 107 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
5 4-c. (a) In cooperation with the chief administrator of the courts as
6 well as any other public or private agency, including law enforcement
7 agencies, collect [and], maintain, analyze and make public statistical
8 and all other information and data with respect to the number of hate
9 crimes reported to or investigated by the division of state police, and
10 all other police or peace officers, the number of persons arrested for
11 the commission of such crimes, the offense for which the person was
12 arrested, the demographic data of the victim or victims of such crimes
13 including, but not limited to, race, color, national origin, ancestry,
14 gender, gender identity or expression, religion, religious practice,
15 age, disability or sexual orientation of a person, the demographic data
16 of the person or persons arrested for the commission of such crimes
17 including, but not limited to, race, color, national origin, ancestry,
18 gender, gender identity or expression, religion, religious practice,
19 age, disability or sexual orientation of a person, the county within
20 which the arrest was made and the accusatory instrument filed, the
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 disposition of the accusatory instrument filed, including, but not
2 limited to, as the case may be, dismissal, acquittal, the offense to
3 which the defendant pled guilty, the offense the defendant was convicted
4 of after trial, and the sentence imposed. Data collected shall be used
5 for research or statistical purposes only and shall not contain informa-
6 tion that may reveal the identity of any individual. The division shall
7 include the statistics and other information required by this subdivi-
8 sion in [the] an annual report submitted to the governor [and legisla-
9 ture pursuant to subdivision twelve of this section], the speaker of the
10 assembly, the temporary president of the senate, the chair of the assem-
11 bly codes committee, the chair of the senate codes committee, the attor-
12 ney general and the chief administrative judge of the office of court
13 administration. Such annual reports shall be a public record.
14 (b) As used in this section, the term "gender identity or expression"
15 shall have the same meaning as defined in paragraph (c) of subdivision
16 four of section 485.05 of the penal law.
17 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
18 have become a law.