A4130 • 2025

Adds provisions to grand larceny in the third degree relating to victims 65 years of age or older

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Sponsor: Mike Reilly
Last action: 2026-05-05
Official status: In Assembly Committee
Effective date: Not listed

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Adds provisions to grand larceny in the third degree relating to victims 65 years of age or older

Adds provisions to grand larceny in the third degree relating to victims 65 years of age or older Provides that when property, regardless of its nature and value, is taken from the person of another and the victim is 65 years of age or older or such property is obtained by extortion and the victim is 65 years of age or older, such crimes shall be grand larceny in the third degree and subject to a class D felony.

What This Bill Does

Adds provisions to grand larceny in the third degree relating to victims 65 years of age or older Provides that when property, regardless of its nature and value, is taken from the person of another and the victim is 65 years of age or older or such property is obtained by extortion and the victim is 65 years of age or older, such crimes shall be grand larceny in the third degree and subject to a class D felony.

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Bill History

2026-05-05 Assembly
HELD FOR CONSIDERATION IN CODES
2026-01-07 Assembly
REFERRED TO CODES
2025-01-31 Assembly
REFERRED TO CODES

Official Summary Text

Adds provisions to grand larceny in the third degree relating to victims 65 years of age or older
Provides that when property, regardless of its nature and value, is taken from the person of another and the victim is 65 years of age or older or such property is obtained by extortion and the victim is 65 years of age or older, such crimes shall be grand larceny in the third degree and subject to a class D felony.

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

                                          4130

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                    January 31, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. REILLY -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to grand larceny in the third
          degree of a person who is 65 years of age or older

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 155.35 of the penal law, as  added
     2  by  section 5 of part O of chapter 56 of the laws of 2024, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    3. when such person commits deed theft of one commercial real  proper-
     5  ty, regardless of the value[.], OR
     6    §  2. Section 155.35 of the penal law, as amended by section 5 of part
     7  O of chapter 56 of the laws of 2024, is amended by adding two new subdi-
     8  visions 4 and 5 to read as follows:
     9    4. THE PROPERTY, REGARDLESS OF ITS NATURE AND VALUE, IS TAKEN FROM THE
    10  PERSON OF ANOTHER AND THE VICTIM IS SIXTY-FIVE YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER, OR
    11    5. THE PROPERTY, REGARDLESS OF ITS NATURE AND VALUE,  IS  OBTAINED  BY
    12  EXTORTION  AS DEFINED IN SUBPARAGRAPHS (III), (IV), (V), (VI), (VII) AND
    13  (IX) OF PARAGRAPH (E) OF SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION 155.05 OF THIS CHAP-
    14  TER AND THE VICTIM IS SIXTY-FIVE YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER.
    15    § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    16  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03638-01-5