STATE OF NEW YORK
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3267
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 15, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- 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 establishing the use of
coercion to expose immigration status as a misdemeanor offense
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 9 of section 135.60 of the penal law, as
2 amended by chapter 426 of the laws of 2008, is amended and a new subdi-
3 vision 10 is added to read as follows:
4 9. Perform any other act which would not in itself materially benefit
5 the actor but which is calculated to harm another person materially with
6 respect to his or her health, safety, business, calling, career, finan-
7 cial condition, reputation or personal relationships[.]; or
8 10. Reveal or disclose such person's immigration status to a federal,
9 state or local law enforcement agency or federal immigration authority.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next
11 succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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