STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5569
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     April 13, 2017
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        Introduced  by Sen. SQUADRON -- 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 categorizing  hate  crimes
          as  serious  offenses  in  relation  to  possession of firearms and to
          repeal certain provisions of such law relating thereto
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (b) of subdivision 17 of section 265.00 of the
     2  penal law, as amended by section 3 of chapter 232 of the laws  of  2010,
     3  is REPEALED.
     4    §  2.  Paragraph  (b) of subdivision 17 of section 265.00 of the penal
     5  law, as amended by section 2 of chapter 232 of  the  laws  of  2010,  is
     6  amended to read as follows:
     7    (b)  any of the following offenses defined in the penal law: illegally
     8  using, carrying or  possessing  a  pistol  or  other  dangerous  weapon;
     9  possession of burglar's tools; criminal possession of stolen property in
    10  the  third  degree;  escape  in  the  third degree; jostling; fraudulent
    11  accosting; endangering the welfare of a child; the offenses  defined  in
    12  article two hundred thirty-five; issuing abortional articles; permitting
    13  prostitution;  promoting  prostitution  in the third degree; stalking in
    14  the fourth degree; stalking in the third degree; the offenses defined in
    15  article one hundred thirty; the offenses defined in article two  hundred
    16  twenty; the offenses defined in article four hundred eighty-five.
    17    § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    18  ing 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.
                                                                   LBD11065-01-7