STATE OF NEW YORK
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7024
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 28, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- 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 crimes committed on metro-
politan transportation authority property
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 70.09 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 70.09 Sentence of imprisonment for crimes committed while in or upon
4 metropolitan transportation authority property.
5 1. Under this section, metropolitan transportation authority property
6 shall include any building, facility, property, vehicle or train owned,
7 leased or operated by the metropolitan transportation authority.
8 2. When a person is convicted of a crime while in or upon metropolitan
9 transportation authority property, the crime shall be deemed to be one
10 category higher than the specified offense the defendant committed, or
11 one category higher than the offense level applicable to the defendant's
12 conviction for an attempt or conspiracy to commit a specified offense,
13 whichever is applicable.
14 3. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, when a person is
15 convicted of a crime pursuant to this section and the specified offense
16 is a class B felony:
17 (a) the maximum term of the indeterminate sentence must be at least
18 six years if the defendant is sentenced pursuant to section 70.00 of
19 this article;
20 (b) the term of the determinate sentence must be at least eight years
21 if the defendant is sentenced pursuant to section 70.02 of this article;
22 (c) the term of the determinate sentence must be at least twelve years
23 if the defendant is sentenced pursuant to section 70.04 of this article;
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (d) the maximum term of the indeterminate sentence must be at least
2 four years if the defendant is sentenced pursuant to section 70.05 of
3 this article; and
4 (e) the maximum term of the indeterminate sentence or the term of the
5 determinate sentence must be at least ten years if the defendant is
6 sentenced pursuant to section 70.06 of this article.
7 4. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, when a person is
8 convicted of a crime pursuant to this section and the specified offense
9 is a class A-1 felony, the minimum period of the indeterminate sentence
10 shall be not less than twenty years.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
