STATE OF NEW YORK
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3990
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 30, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to including community
centers with a religious affiliation in the definition of public place
for purposes of offenses against public order; and including placing a
false bomb or hazardous substance in the definition of specified
offense for the purpose 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 1 of section 240.00 of the penal law, as
2 amended by chapter 167 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 1. "Public place" means a place to which the public or a substantial
5 group of persons has access, and includes, but is not limited to, high-
6 ways, transportation facilities, schools, places of amusement, parks,
7 playgrounds, community centers with a religious affiliation, and hall-
8 ways, lobbies and other portions of apartment houses and hotels not
9 constituting rooms or apartments designed for actual residence.
10 § 2. Subdivision 3 of section 485.05 of the penal law, as amended by
11 section 2 of part C of chapter 55 of the laws of 2024, is amended to
12 read as follows:
13 3. A "specified offense" is an offense defined by any of the following
14 provisions of this chapter: section 120.00 (assault in the third
15 degree); section 120.05 (assault in the second degree); section 120.06
16 (gang assault in the second degree); section 120.07 (gang assault in the
17 first degree); section 120.10 (assault in the first degree); section
18 120.12 (aggravated assault upon a person less than eleven years old);
19 section 120.13 (menacing in the first degree); section 120.14 (menacing
20 in the second degree); section 120.15 (menacing in the third degree);
21 section 120.20 (reckless endangerment in the second degree); section
22 120.25 (reckless endangerment in the first degree); section 121.11
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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1 (criminal obstruction of breathing or blood circulation); section 121.12
2 (strangulation in the second degree); section 121.13 (strangulation in
3 the first degree); subdivision one of section 125.15 (manslaughter in
4 the second degree); subdivision one, two or four of section 125.20
5 (manslaughter in the first degree); section 125.25 (murder in the second
6 degree); section 125.26 (aggravated murder); section 125.27 (murder in
7 the first degree); section 120.45 (stalking in the fourth degree);
8 section 120.50 (stalking in the third degree); section 120.55 (stalking
9 in the second degree); section 120.60 (stalking in the first degree);
10 section 130.20 (sexual misconduct); section 130.25 (rape in the third
11 degree); section 130.30 (rape in the second degree); section 130.35
12 (rape in the first degree); former section 130.40; former section
13 130.45; former section 130.50; section 130.52 (forcible touching);
14 section 130.53 (persistent sexual abuse); section 130.55 (sexual abuse
15 in the third degree); section 130.60 (sexual abuse in the second
16 degree); section 130.65 (sexual abuse in the first degree); section
17 130.65-a (aggravated sexual abuse in the fourth degree); section 130.66
18 (aggravated sexual abuse in the third degree); section 130.67 (aggra-
19 vated sexual abuse in the second degree); section 130.70 (aggravated
20 sexual abuse in the first degree); section 135.05 (unlawful imprisonment
21 in the second degree); section 135.10 (unlawful imprisonment in the
22 first degree); section 135.20 (kidnapping in the second degree); section
23 135.25 (kidnapping in the first degree); section 135.60 (coercion in the
24 third degree); section 135.61 (coercion in the second degree); section
25 135.65 (coercion in the first degree); section 140.10 (criminal trespass
26 in the third degree); section 140.15 (criminal trespass in the second
27 degree); section 140.17 (criminal trespass in the first degree); section
28 140.20 (burglary in the third degree); section 140.25 (burglary in the
29 second degree); section 140.30 (burglary in the first degree); section
30 145.00 (criminal mischief in the fourth degree); section 145.05 (crimi-
31 nal mischief in the third degree); section 145.10 (criminal mischief in
32 the second degree); section 145.12 (criminal mischief in the first
33 degree); section 150.05 (arson in the fourth degree); section 150.10
34 (arson in the third degree); section 150.15 (arson in the second
35 degree); section 150.20 (arson in the first degree); section 155.25
36 (petit larceny); section 155.30 (grand larceny in the fourth degree);
37 section 155.35 (grand larceny in the third degree); section 155.40
38 (grand larceny in the second degree); section 155.42 (grand larceny in
39 the first degree); section 160.05 (robbery in the third degree); section
40 160.10 (robbery in the second degree); section 160.15 (robbery in the
41 first degree); section 230.34 (sex trafficking); section 230.34-a (sex
42 trafficking of a child); section 240.25 (harassment in the first
43 degree); subdivision one, two or four of section 240.30 (aggravated
44 harassment in the second degree); section 240.50 (falsely reporting an
45 incident in the third degree); section 240.55 (falsely reporting an
46 incident in the second degree); section 240.60 (falsely reporting an
47 incident in the first degree); section 240.62 (placing a false bomb or
48 hazardous substance in the first degree); subdivision one of section
49 265.03 (criminal possession of a weapon in the second degree); subdivi-
50 sion one of section 265.04 (criminal possession of a weapon in the first
51 degree); section 490.10 (soliciting or providing support for an act of
52 terrorism in the second degree); section 490.15 (soliciting or providing
53 support for an act of terrorism in the first degree); section 490.20
54 (making a terroristic threat); section 490.25 (crime of terrorism);
55 section 490.30 (hindering prosecution of terrorism in the second
56 degree); section 490.35 (hindering prosecution of terrorism in the first
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1 degree); section 490.37 (criminal possession of a chemical weapon or
2 biological weapon in the third degree); section 490.40 (criminal
3 possession of a chemical weapon or biological weapon in the second
4 degree); section 490.45 (criminal possession of a chemical weapon or
5 biological weapon in the first degree); section 490.47 (criminal use of
6 a chemical weapon or biological weapon in the third degree); section
7 490.50 (criminal use of a chemical weapon or biological weapon in the
8 second degree); section 490.55 (criminal use of a chemical weapon or
9 biological weapon in the first degree); or any attempt or conspiracy to
10 commit any of the foregoing offenses.
11 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately.