Establishes that in addition to other penalties, individuals convicted of hate crimes shall undergo mandatory training or counseling in hate crime prevention and education.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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10958
IN ASSEMBLY
September 9, 2020
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Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Seawright)
-- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to mandated training or coun-
seling in hate crime prevention and education for individuals
convicted 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 5 of section 485.10 of the penal law, as added
2 by chapter 158 of the laws of 2010, is amended to read as follows:
3 5. In addition to any of the dispositions authorized by this chapter,
4 the court [may] shall require as part of the sentence imposed upon a
5 person convicted of a hate crime pursuant to this article, that the
6 defendant complete a program, training session or counseling session
7 directed at hate crime prevention and education, where the court deter-
8 mines such program, training session or counseling session is appropri-
9 ate, available and was developed or authorized by the court or local
10 agencies in cooperation with organizations serving the affected communi-
11 ty.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
13 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD17236-01-0
