STATE OF NEW YORK
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7051
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 31, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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 aggravated harassment in
the first degree
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 240.31 of the penal law, as
2 amended by chapter 74 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 4. Sets on fire a cross in public view or displays a swastika, common-
5 ly exhibited as the emblem of Nazi Germany, on a billboard, aerial
6 display or by a similar method for uninvited public viewing; or
7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD08266-01-5
