Governor Hochul, the legislator grazes a deal against new crimes of wearing mask and evades the arrest

The New York governor Kathy Hochul and the legislators of the states have agreed to create a new indictment for people who wear a mask while committing certain crimes or fleeing the scene.

The spokesman for the assembly, Carl Hastie, a Bronx Democrat, confirmed the deal on Monday, a few hours before Hochul announced the budget contract of $ 254 billion. Heastie said reporters that mask policy belonged to a handful of topics that the governor and legislator had smoothed in the past few days.

The new crime is expected to be included in a final state budget agreement, which is now overdue for four weeks. If the approval is approved, it will be a secondary fee, which means that it can only be calculated in connection with a second, more serious crime.

“It really tries to concentrate on people who wear a mask to hide their identity while they commit another crime,” said Heastie.

Hochul, a Democrat, initially increased the opportunity to restrict masks in public last year, shortly after pictures of masked demonstrators who protested against Israel's war in Gaza while driving on a U -Bahn train on social media website. Proponents of the civil library, including the NYCLU, have pushed back and argue that people should have the right to protest anonymously.

The governor renewed her move in March and insisted that the legislators will accept the topic in the context of state budget negotiations. First of all, Hochul wanted to create a new crime of masked harassment, which would have applied if someone wore a mask for the purpose of the threat or threat to another person or group – which was opposed to some democratic legislators, and cited concerns about the replacement of how and against who it would be enforced.

Instead, Hochul and the legislature landed on Monday.

The new indictment would be an offense of class B and apply if someone wears a mask or covers her face with the intention of hiding his identity while committing a crime or crime in class A or immediately fled the scene.

“I think it is an important recognition and a reaction to a very legitimate topic that many New Yorkers, including the Jewish community, feel very strong,” said Skoufis on Monday. “At least we're doing something. It's narrower than I would have liked it.”

The indictment is referred to as an expulsion by disguising the identity according to a source with knowledge of the negotiations.

The agreement on the new masking fee was one of the last hurdles that legislators had to achieve in order to achieve a final state budget agreement that was originally due on April 1st.

“I think we are probably about to find out most political issues, and now we are starting to talk about the financial matters,” said Heastie on Monday. Hours later, Hochul announced that they had made an agreement that would conclude the legislators in the coming days and bring to vote.

“I think we are probably about to find out the most political issues, and now we are starting to talk about the financial matters,” said Heastie.

According to state law, legislators leave their salary checks exposed until the final budget is approved.

This story was updated with news about the New York State Budget agreement.