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A10124 • 2025

Prohibits youthful offender status for persons who commit a hate crime

Prohibits youthful offender status for persons who commit a hate crime

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Sponsor
Michael Novakhov
Last action
2026-05-05
Official status
In Assembly Committee
Effective date
Not listed

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Prohibits youthful offender status for persons who commit a hate crime

Prohibits youthful offender status for persons who commit a hate crime Prohibits youthful offender status for persons who commit a hate crime.

What This Bill Does

  • Prohibits youthful offender status for persons who commit a hate crime Prohibits youthful offender status for persons who commit a hate crime.

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Bill History

  1. 2026-05-05 Assembly

    HELD FOR CONSIDERATION IN CODES

  2. 2026-02-02 Assembly

    REFERRED TO CODES

Official Summary Text

Prohibits youthful offender status for persons who commit a hate crime
Prohibits youthful offender status for persons who commit a hate crime.

Current Bill Text

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10124

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                    February 2, 2026
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. NOVAKHOV -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Codes

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  penal  law, in relation to prohibiting youthful
          offender status for persons who commit a hate crime

          THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of subdivision 2 of section 720.10 of the
     2  criminal procedure law, as amended by chapter 23 of the laws of 2024, is
     3  amended to read as follows:
     4    (a) the conviction to be replaced by a youthful  offender  finding  is
     5  for  (i)  a  class  A-I or class A-II felony, or (ii) an armed felony as
     6  defined in subdivision forty-one of section 1.20, except as provided  in
     7  subdivision  three,  or (iii) rape in the first degree, a crime formerly
     8  defined in section 130.50 of the penal law, or the crime  of  aggravated
     9  sexual  abuse,  except  as provided in subdivision three, or (IV) A HATE
    10  CRIME AS DEFINED IN SECTION 485.05 OF THE PENAL LAW, OR
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14599-01-6