 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          8539
 
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                     August 23, 2019
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. JACOBSON -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Codes
 
        AN  ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the unlawful wearing of a
          body vest
 
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section  270.20  of the penal law, as
     2  amended by chapter 317 of the laws  of  2001,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    1.  A  person  is  guilty  of the unlawful wearing of a body vest when
     5  acting either alone or with one or more other persons he or she  commits
     6  any  [violent felony offense defined in section 70.02 while possessing a
     7  firearm, rifle or shotgun] misdemeanor or felony defined in this chapter
     8  and in the course of and in furtherance of such crime he or she wears  a
     9  body vest.
    10    §  2. Section 70.25 of the penal law is amended by adding a new subdi-
    11  vision 2-h to read as follows:
    12    2-h. Whenever a person is convicted of unlawful wearing of a body vest
    13  as defined in section 270.20 of this chapter, the  sentence  imposed  by
    14  the  court  for  such  offense  shall  run consecutively to any sentence
    15  imposed upon conviction of a misdemeanor or felony  offense  defined  in
    16  this chapter arising from the same criminal transaction.
    17    §  3.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    18  have become a law.
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13618-01-9
Relates to the unlawful wearing of a body vest

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