New York S 10067: Relates to certain crimes of interference with religious worship

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S10067 Summary:

BILL NOS10067 

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SAME ASSAME AS A10548

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SPONSORMARTINEZ

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COSPNSRADDABBO, CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK, GRIFFO, MARTINS, OBERACKER, RYAN C, WEBER

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§240.70 & 240.71, Pen L

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Relates to certain crimes of interference with access to places of religious worship; expands interference to include groups of two or more people demonstrating or preparing to demonstrate one hundred feet outside of places of religious worship.

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BILL NOS10067 

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04/27/2026REFERRED TO CODES

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 10067

 IN SENATE

 April 27, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. MARTINEZ -- 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 certain crimes of inter-
 ference with religious worship

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

 1 Section 1. The section heading, subdivision 1 and subdivision 3 of
 2 section 240.70 of the penal law, as added by chapter 635 of the laws of
 3 1999, are amended to read as follows:
 4 Criminal interference with health care services or access to a place of
 5 religious worship in the second degree.
 6 1. A person is guilty of criminal interference with health services or
 7 access to a place of religious worship in the second degree when:
 8 (a) by force or threat of force or by physical obstruction, [he or
 9 she] such person intentionally injures, intimidates or interferes with,
 10 or attempts to injure, intimidate or interfere with, another person
 11 because such other person was or is obtaining or providing reproductive
 12 health services; or
 13 (b) by force or threat of force or by physical obstruction, [he or
 14 she] such person intentionally injures, intimidates or interferes with,
 15 or attempts to injure, intimidate or interfere with, another person in
 16 order to discourage such other person or any other person or persons
 17 from obtaining or providing reproductive health services; or
 18 (c) by force or threat of force or by physical obstruction, [he or
 19 she] such person intentionally injures, intimidates or interferes with,
 20 or attempts to injure, intimidate or interfere with, another person
 21 [because] when such person [was or is seeking to exercise the right of
 22 religious freedom at] seeks to enter a place of religious worship, or to
 23 exercise the right of religious freedom therein; or
 24 (d) [he or she] such person intentionally damages the property of a
 25 health care facility, or attempts to do so, because such facility
 26 provides reproductive health services, or intentionally damages the
 27 property of a place of religious worship[.]; or

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD15069-01-6

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 1 (e) groups of two or more people demonstrating or preparing to demon-
 2 strate outside of a place of religious worship fail to maintain one
 3 hundred feet of distance from such a place, including its parking lot
 4 entrances, driveway and driveway entrances of such facilities.
 5 3. For purposes of this section:
 6 (a) the term "health care facility" means a hospital, clinic, physi-
 7 cian's office or other facility that provides reproductive health
 8 services, and includes the building or structure in which the facility
 9 is located;
 10 (b) the term "interferes with" means to restrict a person's freedom of
 11 movement;
 12 (c) the term "intimidates" means to place a person in reasonable
 13 apprehension of physical injury to [himself or herself] themself or to
 14 another person;
 15 (d) the term "physical obstruction" means rendering impassable ingress
 16 to or egress from a facility that provides reproductive health services
 17 or to or from a place of religious worship, or rendering passage to or
 18 from such a facility or place of religious worship unreasonably diffi-
 19 cult or hazardous; [and]
 20 (e) the term "reproductive health services" means