Requires police agencies to report offenses to the division of criminal justice services which appear to such agency to be motivated by the race, national origin, religion or sexual orientation of the victim or of the owner, resident, lessee or occupant where the offense is committed against property.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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4209
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 3, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. PARKER, BAILEY -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Investigations
and Government Operations
AN ACT to amend the civil rights law, in relation to requiring reporting
of unlawful acts which appear to be based on race, national origin,
religion or sexual orientation
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The civil rights law is amended by adding a new section
2 40-h to read as follows:
3 § 40-h. Reports to division of criminal justice services. Every police
4 agency, as defined in subdivision eight of section eight hundred thir-
5 ty-five of the executive law, shall notify the division of criminal
6 justice services in the manner prescribed by such division, whenever an
7 act which constitutes an offense is committed and which appears to such
8 agency to have been motivated by the race, national origin, religion or
9 sexual orientation of the victim or in the case of an offense committed
10 against property, the race, national origin, religion or sexual orien-
11 tation of the owner, resident, lessee or occupant thereof.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
13 have become a law. Effective immediately, the addition, amendment and/or
14 repeal of any rule or regulation necessary for the implementation of
15 this act on its effective date are authorized to be made and completed
16 on or before such effective date.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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