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                                         5850
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     June 8, 2015
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
       AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the unlawful wearing of  a
         body vest
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of  section  270.20  of  the  penal  law,  as
    2  amended  by  chapter  317  of  the  laws  of 2001, is amended to read as
    3  follows:
    4    1. A person is guilty of the unlawful wearing  of  a  body  vest  when
    5  acting  either alone or with one or more other persons he OR SHE WEARS A
    6  BODY VEST AND:
    7    (A) commits any violent felony offense defined in  section  70.02,  OR
    8  ANY CLASS A FELONY OFFENSE OTHER THAN ONE DEFINED IN ARTICLE TWO HUNDRED
    9  TWENTY,  OR  COMMITS  ASSAULT OR RECKLESS ENDANGERMENT AS THOSE OFFENSES
   10  ARE DEFINED IN ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED TWENTY, while possessing OR APPEARING
   11  TO POSSESS a firearm, rifle [or], shotgun [and in the course of  and  in
   12  furtherance  of such crime he wears a body vest], DEADLY WEAPON, DANGER-
   13  OUS INSTRUMENT OR AMMUNITION; OR
   14    (B) COMMITS ANY VIOLENT FELONY OFFENSE DEFINED IN SECTION 70.02 OR ANY
   15  CLASS A FELONY OFFENSE OTHER THAN ONE DEFINED  IN  ARTICLE  TWO  HUNDRED
   16  TWENTY,  HAVING PREVIOUSLY BEEN CONVICTED WITHIN THE PRECEDING TEN YEARS
   17  OF ANY SUCH OFFENSE.
   18    S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
   19  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD11511-01-5