New York A 1188: Enacts the criminal street gangs enforcement and prevention act; repealer

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A01188 Summary:

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Amd §§60.07, 70.02 & 130.91, rpld §§120.06 & 120.07, redes Title Y-2 to be Title Y-3, add Title Y-2 Art 495
§§495.01 - 495.08, Pen L; amd §1349, CPLR; add §97-zzzz, St Fin L; amd §15-b, Cor L; add Art 25 §§1210 -
1213, Ed L; amd §10.03, Ment Hyg L

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Enacts the criminal street gangs enforcement and prevention act; defines offenses; increases penalties; provides for gang prevention programs in schools; establishes the criminal street gang prevention fund; develops a comprehensive approach to protecting public interests from gang related crime and violence.

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BILL NOA01188 

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01/09/2025referred to codes

01/07/2026referred to codes

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1188

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 9, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. RAMOS -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Codes

 AN ACT to amend the penal law, the civil practice law and rules, the
 state finance law, the correction law, the education law and the
 mental hygiene law, in relation to defining offenses involving crimi-
 nal street gangs, creating the criminal street gang prevention fund,
 and providing for gang prevention services in schools; and to repeal
 sections 120.06 and 120.07 of the penal law, relating to offenses of
 gang assault

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Legislative findings and purpose. The legislature hereby
 2 finds that New York laws are insufficient regarding the prosecution of
 3 criminal street gangs and the protection of public order and individual
 4 safety against gang-related violence, because of the lack of programs
 5 and activities specifically designed to prevent the growth of criminal
 6 street gangs, facilitate prosecution and punishment of members of crimi-
 7 nal street gangs, and punish those who solicit others to participate in
 8 criminal street gangs and in acts of gang-related violence or who
 9 provide support or resources to those who commit or encourage the
 10 commission of such acts.
 11 The legislature further finds that the threat of violence and the
 12 disruption of public order and safety presented by criminal street gangs
 13 have reached a crisis point that threatens the right of residents of
 14 this state to be secure and protected from fear, intimidation, and phys-
 15 ical harm.
 16 The legislature therefore finds and declares that it is in every sense
 17 in the public interest to establish a comprehensive approach to the
 18 protection of public order and individual safety against criminal street
 19 gangs and gang-related violence, by severely criminalizing such activ-
 20 ities, by creating anti-crime programs that focus on patterns of crimi-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00446-01-5

 A. 1188 2

 1 nal gang activity and organization, and by expanding education and
 2 intervention to prevent the growth of criminal street gangs as provided
 3 in this legislation.
 4 § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 60.07 of the penal law,
 5 as added by chapter 148 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as
 6 follows:
 7 (a) the term "specified offense" shall mean an attempt to commit
 8 murder in the second degree as defined in section 125.25 of this chap-
 9 ter, gang assault in the first degree as defined in section [120.07]
 10 495.06 of this chapter, gang assault in the second degree as defined in
 11 section [120.06] 495.05 of this chapter, assault in the first degree as
 12 defined in section 120.10 of this chapter, manslaughter in the first
 13 degree as defined in section 125.20 of this chapter, manslaughter in the
 14 second degree as defined in section 125.15 of this chapter, robbery in
 15 the first degree as defined in section 160.15 of this chapter, robbery
 16 in the second degree as defined in se