 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    February 12, 2025
                                       ___________
 
        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
          body armor
 
          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 while
     7  possessing a firearm, rifle or shotgun] misdemeanor or felony defined in
     8  this chapter and in the course of and in furtherance of such  crime  [he
     9  or she] such person wears body armor.
    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 body  armor
    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.
                                                                   LBD01684-01-5
Relates to the unlawful wearing of body armor

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