A 2116: Makes the theft of a package intentionally taken from a porch, driveway, doorway or other area adjacent to the residence of another following delivery of the package to such residence by the postal service or a commercial carrier a felony.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2116 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 15, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SMITH, SIMON, MIKULIN, BRABENEC, DeSTEFANO, BLANKENBUSH, TANNOUSIS, TAGUE, ANGELINO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to making the theft of a package intentionally taken from a porch, driveway, doorway or other area adjacent to the residence of another following delivery of the package to such residence by the postal service or a commercial carri- er a felony The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 155.30 of the penal law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 5-a to read as follows: 3 5-a. The property consists of a package, regardless of its nature and 4 value of such package, which is intentionally taken from a porch, 5 driveway, doorway or other area adjacent to the residence of another 6 following delivery of the package to such residence by the postal 7 service or a commercial carrier; or 8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 9 ing the date upon which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00430-01-5