STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5569 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN SENATE April 13, 2017 ___________ 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subdivision 17 of section 265.00 of the 2 penal law, as amended by section 3 of chapter 232 of the laws of 2010, 3 is REPEALED. 4 § 2.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