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Home/Bills/S 1386New York · 2025–2026 Legislative Session
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S 1386: 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.

New York · Senate · 2025–2026 Legislative Session · last verified January 8, 2026

What S 1386 does, verified January 8, 2026

The bill proposes to make the theft of a package intentionally taken from a porch, driveway, doorway, or other adjacent area a felony. This applies when the package is delivered to the residence by the postal service or a commercial carrier. The law will be amended to include this new offense, regardless of the package's nature and value. The change will take effect on the first day of November next following the bill's enactment.

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Last action: REFERRED TO CODES (2026-01-07)Alert me
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Latest bill textIntroduced version, January 9, 2025 · 236 words
  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1386 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 9, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK -- 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 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 
Text of S 1386 as introduced, from the official record. Connect Plus keeps every version and highlights what changed.Compare versions
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