Bill Text: NY S01492 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the crime of disruption of an online public meeting when a person with intent to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, without lawful authority, and acting through a computer service, he or she disturbs any lawful assembly or meeting of persons open to the public conducted through a computer service; makes such crime a class B misdemeanor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO CODES [S01492 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S01492-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1492

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 12, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SERRANO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime  of
          disruption of an online public meeting

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new  section  240.20-a
     2  to read as follows:
     3  § 240.20-a Disruption of an online public meeting.
     4    1.  A person is guilty of disruption of an online public meeting when,
     5  with intent to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or  alarm,  without
     6  lawful  authority,  and  acting  through  a  computer service, he or she
     7  disturbs any lawful assembly or meeting of persons open  to  the  public
     8  conducted through a computer service.
     9    2.  Nothing  in this section shall prevent prosecution of a person for
    10  disorderly conduct as defined in subdivision four of section  240.20  of
    11  this article or any other offense.
    12    Disruption of an online public meeting is a class B misdemeanor.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03216-01-1