STATE OF NEW YORK
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10473
IN ASSEMBLY
March 6, 2026
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Introduced by M. of A. HYNDMAN -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law and the general business law, in relation
to criminal mischief and securities fraud
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 145.05 of the penal law, as
2 amended by chapter 276 of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 2. damages property of another person in an amount exceeding [two
5 hundred fifty] one thousand dollars.
6 § 2. Section 145.10 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 961 of the
7 laws of 1971, is amended to read as follows:
8 § 145.10 Criminal mischief in the second degree.
9 A person is guilty of criminal mischief in the second degree when with
10 intent to damage property of another person, and having no right to do
11 so nor any reasonable ground to believe that [he has] they have such
12 right, [he damages] they damage property of another person in an amount
13 exceeding [one] three thousand [five hundred] dollars.
14 Criminal mischief in the second degree is a class D felony.
15 § 3. Subdivision 6 of section 352-c of the general business law, as
16 added by chapter 146 of the laws of 1982, is amended to read as follows:
17 6. Any person, partnership, corporation, company, trust or associ-
18 ation, or any agent or employee thereof who intentionally engages in
19 fraud, deception, concealment, suppression, false pretense or fictitious
20 or pretended purchase or sale, or who makes any material false represen-
21 tation or statement with intent to deceive or defraud, while engaged in
22 inducing or promoting the issuance, distribution, exchange, sale, nego-
23 tiation or purchase within or from this state of any securities or
24 commodities, as defined in this article, and thereby wrongfully obtains
25 property of a value in excess of [two hundred fifty] one thousand
26 dollars, shall be guilty of a class E felony.
27 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to
28 offenses committed on or after such effective date, and to offenses
29 committed prior to such effective date where the criminal proceeding
30 arising out of the commission of such offense is pending on the effec-
31 tive date of this act.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD02119-01-5
