Crime Committee Report e.indd - New York State Senate

S.1909-B KLEIN, ADDABBO, DIAZ, DILAN, ESPADA, HASSELL-THOMPSON, HUNTLEY, C.
JOHNSON, KRUEGER, ONORATO, PARKER, SAMPSON, SAVINO, SCHNEIDERMAN,
SERRANO, SMITH, STAVISKY
/ A 180-B Latimer
Religious Crimes
5/12/10 - Passed Senate
Amends to include in the definition of grand larceny in the fourth degree the theft of religious
property located outside and within 100 feet of the building or structure of worship. This bill
would make it criminal interference with religious worship in the first degree, a class E felony,
when one intentional damages the property of a place of religious worship in excess of one hundred
dollars while committing criminal interference with religious worship in the second degree.
S.3119 HUNTLEY, DIAZ, HASSELL-THOMPSON, C. JOHNSON, ONORATO, PERKINS / A1530-C
Colton
Funeral Processions
6/17/10 - Passed Senate
Prohibits disruption of a funeral procession by making it illegal for a driver of a motor vehicle
to force his/her way into the line of said procession.
S.3764 PARKER, HASSELL-THOMPSON, PERKINS / A5307 Rivera
Protecting Transit Workers
6/15/10 - Passed Senate
An act to amend Chapter 598 of the Laws of 2002 and Chapter 607 of the Laws of 2003 relating
to assaults against certain employees of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. The
intentional causing of physical injury to a station cleaner or terminal cleaner would be classified
as a D felony.
S.5865 HASSELL-THOMPSON
Prison Contraband
6/15/10 Passed Senate
This bill would expand the definition of dangerous contraband to include telecommunications
and electronic recording devices. A frightening and very real example of what can
happen has in fact happened in Brazil. Cell phones were smuggled into prisons and used to organize
riots at 29 prisons. The result: 15 people were killed and 8,000 guards and relatives were
held hostage. In Ontario, an inmate was charged with running a drug ring from prison. Britain,
Thailand, India, and Japan have all reported incidents of cell phones being discovered in their
prisons. In the United States there are at least ten states that are contemplating enacting or
have already adopted statutes making it a crime to possess or introduce electronic devices into
their detention facilities: Arkansas, Colorado, Tennessee, Iowa, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, Ohio,
Louisiana, Texas, and Illinois.
S.2554-A
STEWART-COUSINS, ADAMS, ADDABBO, BRESLIN, DIAZ, DUANE, HASSELL-
THOMPSON, C. JOHNSON, KRUEGER, MONTGOMERY, ONORATO, PERKINS, SAMPSON,
STACHOWSKI, STAVISKY
/ A9250-A Kavanagh
Voter Fraud
6/15/10 - Passed Senate
This bill would criminalize as a misdemeanor deceptive practices in connection with any election.
Additionally, this bill would create a new electoral crime of voter suppression, punishable
as a misdemeanor. Finally, this bill would increase the penalties for violations of the electoral
franchise statutes contained in Article 17 of the election law.
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