Includes aggravated cemetery desecration in the second degree and aggravated cemetery desecration in the first degree as specified offenses for purposes of hate crimes.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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35
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. TEDISCO, BORRELLO, MARTINS, OBERACKER, PALUMBO, WEIK
-- 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 including aggravated ceme-
tery desecration in the second degree and aggravated cemetery dese-
cration in the first degree as specified offenses for purposes of hate
crimes
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 485.05 of the penal law, as
2 amended by section 2 of part C of chapter 55 of the laws of 2024, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 3. A "specified offense" is an offense defined by any of the following
5 provisions of this chapter: section 120.00 (assault in the third
6 degree); section 120.05 (assault in the second degree); section 120.06
7 (gang assault in the second degree); section 120.07 (gang assault in the
8 first degree); section 120.10 (assault in the first degree); section
9 120.12 (aggravated assault upon a person less than eleven years old);
10 section 120.13 (menacing in the first degree); section 120.14 (menacing
11 in the second degree); section 120.15 (menacing in the third degree);
12 section 120.20 (reckless endangerment in the second degree); section
13 120.25 (reckless endangerment in the first degree); section 121.11
14 (criminal obstruction of breathing or blood circulation); section 121.12
15 (strangulation in the second degree); section 121.13 (strangulation in
16 the first degree); subdivision one of section 125.15 (manslaughter in
17 the second degree); subdivision one, two or four of section 125.20
18 (manslaughter in the first degree); section 125.25 (murder in the second
19 degree); section 125.26 (aggravated murder); section 125.27 (murder in
20 the first degree); section 120.45 (stalking in the fourth degree);
21 section 120.50 (stalking in the third degree); section 120.55 (stalking
22 in the second degree); section 120.60 (stalking in the first degree);
23 section 130.20 (sexual misconduct); section 130.25 (rape in the third
24 degree); section 130.30 (rape in the second degree); section 130.35
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00184-01-5
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1 (rape in the first degree); former section 130.40; former section
2 130.45; former section 130.50; section 130.52 (forcible touching);
3 section 130.53 (persistent sexual abuse); section 130.55 (sexual abuse
4 in the third degree); section 130.60 (sexual abuse in the second
5 degree); section 130.65 (sexual abuse in the first degree); section
6 130.65-a (aggravated sexual abuse in the fourth degree); section 130.66
7 (aggravated sexual abuse in the third degree); section 130.67 (aggra-
8 vated sexual abuse in the second degree); section 130.70 (aggravated
9 sexual abuse in the first degree); section 135.05 (unlawful imprisonment
10 in the second degree); section 135.10 (unlawful imprisonment in the
11 first degree); section 135.20 (kidnapping in the second degree); section
12 135.25 (kidnapping in the first degree); section 135.60 (coercion in the
13 third degree); section 135.61 (coercion in the second degree); section
14 135.65 (coercion in the first degree); section 140.10 (criminal trespass
15 in the third degree); section 140.15 (criminal trespass in the second
16 degree); section 140.17 (criminal trespass in the first degree); section
17 140.20 (burglary in the third degree); section 140.25 (burglary in the
18 second degree); section 140.30 (burglary in the first degree); section
19 145.00 (criminal mischief in the fourth degree); section 145.05 (crimi-
20 nal mischief in the third degree); section 145.10 (criminal mischief in
21 the second degree); section 145.12 (criminal mischief in the first
22 degree); section 145.26 (aggravated cemetery desecration in the second
23 degree); section 145.27 (aggravated cemetery desecration in the first
24 degree); section 150.05 (arson in the fourth degree); section 150.10
25 (arson in the third degree); section 150.15 (arson in the second
26 degree); section 150.20 (arson in the first degree); section 155.25
27 (petit larceny); section 155.30 (grand larceny in the fourth degree);
28 section 155.35 (grand larceny in the third degree); section 155.40
29 (grand larceny in the second degree); section 155.42 (grand larceny in
30 the first degree); section 160.05 (robbery in the third degree); section
31 160.10 (robbery in the second degree); section 160.15 (robbery in the
32 first degree); section 230.34 (sex trafficking); section 230.34-a (sex
33 trafficking of a child); section 240.25 (harassment in the first
34 degree); subdivision one, two or four of section 240.30 (aggravated
35 harassment in the second degree); section 240.50 (falsely reporting an
36 incident in the third degree); section 240.55 (falsely reporting an
37 incident in the second degree); section 240.60 (falsely reporting an
38 incident in the first degree); subdivision one of section 265.03 (crimi-
39 nal possession of a weapon in the second degree); subdivision one of
40 section 265.04 (criminal possession of a weapon in the first degree);
41 section 490.10 (soliciting or providing support for an act of terrorism
42 in the second degree); section 490.15 (soliciting or providing support
43 for an act of terrorism in the first degree); section 490.20 (making a
44 terroristic threat); section 490.25 (crime of terrorism); section 490.30
45 (hindering prosecution of terrorism in the second degree); section
46 490.35 (hindering prosecution of terrorism in the first degree); section
47 490.37 (criminal possession of a chemical weapon or biological weapon in
48 the third degree); section 490.40 (criminal possession of a chemical
49 weapon or biological weapon in the second degree); section 490.45 (crim-
50 inal possession of a chemical weapon or biological weapon in the first
51 degree); section 490.47 (criminal use of a chemical weapon or biological
52 weapon in the third degree); section 490.50 (criminal use of a chemical
53 weapon or biological weapon in the second degree); section 490.55 (crim-
54 inal use of a chemical weapon or biological weapon in the first degree);
55 or any attempt or conspiracy to commit any of the foregoing offenses.
56 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
