STATE OF NEW YORK
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2144
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 22, 2019
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Introduced by M. of A. SOLAGES, BICHOTTE, SEAWRIGHT, STECK, COOK, ORTIZ,
LAVINE, COLTON, PERRY, SIMON, ARROYO, BARRON, JAFFEE, HYNDMAN, NIOU,
PICHARDO, DE LA ROSA, D'URSO, DAVILA, DICKENS, BLAKE, WILLIAMS, JEAN-
PIERRE, WEPRIN, MOSLEY, VANEL -- read once and referred to the Commit-
tee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to extortion or coercion
related to immigration status
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 135.60 of the penal law, as
2 amended by section 1 of part NN of chapter 55 of the laws of 2018, is
3 amended to read as follows:
4 4. Accuse some person of a crime or cause criminal charges or deporta-
5 tion proceedings to be instituted against him or her; or
6 § 2. Subparagraph (iv) of paragraph (e) of subdivision 2 of section
7 155.05 of the penal law is amended to read as follows:
8 (iv) Accuse some person of a crime or cause criminal charges or depor-
9 tation proceedings to be instituted against him or her; or
10 § 3. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
11 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD05019-01-9
