Establishes hate crimes against police officers; defines such crimes as committing murder in the first degree, aggravated murder, or murder in the second degree against a police officer and the victim is chosen because they are a police officer.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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11083
IN ASSEMBLY
April 24, 2026
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Introduced by M. of A. RAMOS -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, the correction law, the criminal proce-
dure law, and the administrative code of the city of New York, in
relation to establishing hate crimes against police officers
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 485.07 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 485.07 Hate crimes against police officers.
4 A person commits a hate crime against police officers when:
5 1. such person commits murder in the first degree as defined in
6 section 125.27 of this chapter, aggravated murder as defined in section
7 125.26 of this chapter, or murder in the second degree as defined in
8 section 125.25 of this chapter; and
9 2. the victim is a police officer as defined in subdivision thirty-
10 four of section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law or a peace officer as
11 defined in paragraph a of subdivision twenty-one, subdivision twenty-
12 three, twenty-four or sixty-two (employees of the division for youth) of
13 section 2.10 of the criminal procedure law; and
14 3. the defendant chooses the victim because the victim is a police
15 officer or a peace officer.
16 § 2. Paragraph (i) of subdivision 1 of section 205 of the correction
17 law, as added by section 32 of subpart A of part C of chapter 62 of the
18 laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
19 (i) a hate crime as defined in section 485.05 or 485.07 of the penal
20 law; or
21 § 3. Subparagraph (x) of paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section
22 150.20 of the criminal procedure law, as amended by section 1 of subpart
23 B of part UU of chapter 56 of the laws of 2022, is amended to read as
24 follows:
25 (x) the person is eighteen years of age or older and charged with a
26 hate crime as defined in section 485.05 or 485.07 of the penal law; or
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 § 4. Subdivision 4 and paragraph (c) of subdivision 7 of section
2 200.50 of the criminal procedure law, subdivision 4 as amended by
3 section 15 of subpart A of part H of chapter 55 of the laws of 2014, and
4 paragraph (c) of subdivision 7 as amended by chapter 8 of the laws of
5 2019, are amended to read as follows:
6 4. A statement in each count that the grand jury, or, where the accu-
7 satory instrument is a superior court information, the district attor-
8 ney, accuses the defendant or defendants of a designated offense,
9 provided that in any prosecution under article four hundred eighty-five
10 of the penal law, the designated offense shall be the specified offense,
11 as defined in subdivision three of section 485.05 or subdivision one of
12 section 485.07 of the penal law, followed by the phrase "as a hate
13 crime", and provided further that in any prosecution under section
14 490.25 of the penal law, the designated offense shall be the specified
15 offense, as defined in subdivision three of section 490.05 of the penal
16 law, followed by the phrase "as a crime of terrorism"; and provided
17 further that in any prosecution under section 130.91 of the penal law,
18 the designated offense shall be the specified offense, as defined in
19 subdivision two of section 130.91 of the penal law, followed by the
20 phrase "as a sexually motivated felony"; and provided further that in
21 any prosecution under section 496.06 of the penal law, the designated
22 offense shall be the specified offense, as defined in subdivision two of
23 such section, followed by the phrase "as a public corruption crime"; and
24 (c) in the case of any hate crime, as defined in section 485.05 or
25 485.07 of the penal law, specifies, as applicable, that the defendant or
26 defendants intentionally selected the person against whom the offense
27 was committed or intended to be committed; or intentionally committed
28 the act or acts constituting the offense, in whole or in substantial
29 part because of a belief or perception regarding the race, color,
30 national origin, ancestry, gender, gender identity or expression, reli-
31 gion, religious practice, age, disability or sexual orientation of a
32 person; and
33 § 5. Subparagraph ii of paragraph 7 of subdivision a of section 9-131
34 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local
35 law number 58 of the city of New York for the year 2014, is amended to
36 read as follows:
37 ii. a hate crime as defined in section 485.05 or 485.07 of the penal
38 law, provided such hate crime constitutes a felony;
39 § 6. Subparagraph ii of paragraph 6 of subdivision a of section
40 14-154 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by
41 local law number 59 of the city of New York for the year 2014, is
42 amended to read as follows:
43 ii. a hate crime as defined in section 485.05 or 485.07 of the penal
44 law, provided such hate crime constitutes a felony;
45 § 7. Subdivision c of section 14-161 of the administrative code of the
46 city of New York, as added by local law number 110 of the city of New
47 York for the year 2016, is amended to read as follows:
48 c. For purposes of this section, the term "hate crime" has the meaning
49 ascribed to it by section 485.05 or 485.07 of the New York penal law.
50 § 8. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
51 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
