New York A 3073: Relates to establishing the New York state loan redemption program for certain public school teachers

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A03073 Summary:

BILL NOA03073 

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SAME ASSAME AS S09583

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SPONSORRozic (MS)

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COSPNSRVanel, Hyndman, Cook, Glick, Dinowitz, Colton, Lavine, Carroll R, Eichenstein, Seawright, Williams,
 Fall, Cruz, Sayegh, Jacobson, Stirpe, Miller, Reyes, DiPietro, Giglio, Morinello, Smullen,
 DeStefano, Kassay

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MLTSPNSRSimon

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Amd Pen L, generally

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Enhances criminal penalties for criminal mischief and larceny offenses committed at a place of religious worship and for cemetery desecration.

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BILL NOA03073 

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01/23/2025referred to codes

01/07/2026referred to codes

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 3073

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 23, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. ROZIC, VANEL, HYNDMAN, COOK, GLICK, DINOWITZ,
 COLTON, LAVINE, R. CARROLL, EICHENSTEIN, SEAWRIGHT, WILLIAMS, FALL,
 CRUZ, SAYEGH, JACOBSON, STIRPE, MILLER, REYES, DiPIETRO, GIGLIO, MORI-
 NELLO, SMULLEN, DeSTEFANO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. SIMON --
 read once and referred to the Committee on Codes

 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to criminal mischief and
 larceny offenses committed at a place of religious worship and to
 cemetery desecration

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 145.05 of the penal law, as
 2 amended by chapter 276 of the laws of 2003, is amended and a new subdi-
 3 vision 3 is added to read as follows:
 4 2. damages property of another person in an amount exceeding two
 5 hundred fifty dollars[.]; or
 6 3. damages property which, regardless of its nature or value, is in
 7 any building, structure or upon the curtilage of such building or struc-
 8 ture used as a place of religious worship by a religious corporation, as
 9 incorporated under the religious corporations law or the education law,
 10 or used as a museum whose central purpose is religious in nature.
 11 § 2. Section 145.10 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 961 of the
 12 laws of 1971, is amended to read as follows:
 13 § 145.10 Criminal mischief in the second degree.
 14 A person is guilty of criminal mischief in the second degree when with
 15 intent to damage property of another person, and having no right to do
 16 so nor any reasonable ground to believe that [he] such person has such
 17 right, [he] such person:
 18 1. damages property of another person in an amount exceeding one thou-
 19 sand five hundred dollars[.]; or
 20 2. damages property which consists of a scroll, a religious vestment,
 21 a vessel, an item comprising a display of religious symbols which forms

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD06195-01-5

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 1 a representative expression of faith or any other item kept or used in
 2 connection with religious worship in any building, structure or upon the
 3 curtilage of such building or structure used as a place of religious
 4 worship by a religious corporation, as incorporated under the religious
 5 corporations law or the education law, or used as a museum whose central
 6 purpose is religious in nature.
 7 Criminal mischief in the second degree is a class D felony.
 8 § 3. Section 145.22 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 353 of the
 9 laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
 10 § 145.22 Cemetery desecration in the [second] third degree.
 11 A person is guilty of cemetery desecration in the [second] third
 12 degree when: (a) with intent to damage property of another person[,]
 13 and having no right to do so nor any reasonable ground to believe that
 14 [he] such person has such right, [he] such person damages any real or
 15 personal property used or maintained as a cemetery, mausoleum, columbar-
 16 ium, lot, plot, grave, burial place, crypt, vault or other place of
 17 interment or temporary storage of human remains or cremated human
 18 remains, or any monument, headstone, marker, plaque, statue, vase, urn,
 19 decoration, flag holder, or other embellishment that is located on o