 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3316
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    January 27, 2025
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M. of A. SMITH, DeSTEFANO, SAYEGH, MORINELLO, TANNOUSIS,
          McDONOUGH, ANGELINO -- read once and  referred  to  the  Committee  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 371 of the laws  of  2022,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    1.  A  person  is  guilty  of  the unlawful wearing of body armor when
     5  acting either alone or with one or more other persons [he]  such  person
     6  commits  any [violent felony offense defined in section 70.02] misdemea-
     7  nor or felony defined in this chapter while possessing a [firearm, rifle
     8  or shotgun] deadly weapon defined in section 10.00 of this  chapter  and
     9  in  the  course  of  and  in  furtherance of such crime [he or she] such
    10  person wears body armor.
    11    § 2. Section 70.25 of the penal law is amended by adding a new  subdi-
    12  vision 2-h to read as follows:
    13    2-h. Whenever a person is convicted of unlawful wearing of a body vest
    14  as  defined  in  section 270.20 of this chapter, the sentence imposed by
    15  the court for such offense  shall  run  consecutively  to  any  sentence
    16  imposed  upon  conviction  of a misdemeanor or felony offense defined in
    17  this chapter arising from the same criminal transaction.
    18    § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    19  have become a law.
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01493-01-5
Relates to the unlawful wearing of a body vest

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