Bill Text: NY A02738 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Includes removal or threat of removal of religious clothing as aggravated harassment in the second degree.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 28-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to codes [A02738 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A02738-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2738 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 25, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. FERNANDEZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to including removal or threat of removal of religious clothing as aggravated harassment in the second degree 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 240.30 of the penal law, as 2 amended by chapter 188 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 3. With the intent to harass, annoy, threaten or alarm another person, 5 he or she strikes, shoves, kicks, or otherwise subjects another person 6 to physical contact, including removing a religious clothing article or 7 headdress from such person, or attempts or threatens to do the same 8 because of a belief or perception regarding such person's race, color, 9 national origin, ancestry, gender, religion, religious practice, age, 10 disability or sexual orientation, regardless of whether the belief or 11 perception is correct; or 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03764-01-9
