A 3990: Includes community centers with a religious affiliation in the definition of public place for purposes of offenses against public order; includes falsely reporting an incident and placing a false bomb or hazardous substance in the definition of specified offense for the purposes of hate crimes.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3990 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 30, 2025 ___________ 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. LBD06029-02-5 
 A. 3990 2 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 
 A. 3990 3 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.