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Home/Bills/A 151New York · 2025–2026 Legislative Session
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A 151: Includes all hate crimes as a qualifying offense for the purposes of a court's determination to release the principal pending trial on the principal's own recognizance or under non-monetary conditions, fix bail, or, where the defendant is charged with a qualifying offense which is a felony, the court may commit the principal to the custody of the sheriff.

New York · Assembly · 2025–2026 Legislative Session · last verified January 10, 2026

What A 151 does, verified January 10, 2026

The bill aims to strengthen hate crime laws in New York by expanding the definition of hate crimes. It modifies existing laws to include certain crimes as hate crimes, regardless of the specific circumstances. Specifically, the bill updates the definition of hate crimes to include assault and arson charges when they are part of a hate crime, as defined in the penal law. The changes take effect immediately, allowing law enforcement to more effectively identify and prosecute hate crimes.

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Edward GibbsMarianne ButtenschonAmy PaulinNily RozicCarrie WoernerManny De Los Santos
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Jan. 07, 2026referred to codes
Jan. 08, 2025referred to codes
Latest bill textIntroduced version, January 8, 2025 · 395 words
  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 151 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. EICHENSTEIN, GIBBS, BUTTENSCHON, PAULIN, ROZIC, WOERNER, DE LOS SANTOS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to securing orders for principals charged with hate crimes The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (m) of subdivision 4 of section 510.10 of the 2 criminal procedure law, as added by section 2 of part UU of chapter 56 3 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows: 4 (m) [assault in the third degree as defined in section 120.00 of the 5 penal law or arson in the third degree as defined in section 150.10 of 6 the penal law, when such crime is] any crime charged as a hate crime as 7 defined in section 485.05 of the penal law; 8 § 2. Subparagraph (xiii) of paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 9 530.20 of the criminal procedure law, as amended by section 3 of part UU 10 of chapter 56 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows: 11 (xiii) [assault in the third degree as defined in section 120.00 of 12 the penal law or arson in the third degree as defined in section 150.10 13 of the penal law, when such crime is] any crime charged as a hate crime 14 as defined in section 485.05 of the penal law; 15 § 3. Paragraph (m) of subdivision 4 of section 530.40 of the criminal 16 procedure law, as added by section 4 of part UU of chapter 56 of the 17 laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows: 18 (m) [assault in the third degree as defined in section 120.00 of the 19 penal law or arson in the third degree as defined in section 150.10 of 20 the penal law, when such crime is] any crime charged as a hate crime as 21 defined in section 485.05 of the penal law; 22 § 4. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00555-01-5 
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