STATE OF NEW YORK
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2116
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 15, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. SMITH, SIMON, MIKULIN, BRABENEC, DeSTEFANO,
BLANKENBUSH, TANNOUSIS, TAGUE, ANGELINO -- read once and referred to
the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to making the theft of a
package intentionally taken from a porch, driveway, doorway or other
area adjacent to the residence of another following delivery of the
package to such residence by the postal service or a commercial carri-
er a felony
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 155.30 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 5-a to read as follows:
3 5-a. The property consists of a package, regardless of its nature and
4 value of such package, which is intentionally taken from a porch,
5 driveway, doorway or other area adjacent to the residence of another
6 following delivery of the package to such residence by the postal
7 service or a commercial carrier; or
8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
9 ing the date upon which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00430-01-5
