Bill Text: NY S02641 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Includes the use of a governmental agency to harass a person within the crime of aggravated harassment in the first degree.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-22 - REFERRED TO CODES [S02641 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S02641-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2641

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 22, 2025
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        Introduced  by  Sen. ADDABBO -- 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 including  the  use  of  a
          governmental  agency to harass a person within the crime of aggravated
          harassment in the first degree

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivisions  2 and 5 of section 240.31 of the penal law,
     2  subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 49 of the laws of 2006 and  subdivi-
     3  sion  5  as added by chapter 74 of the laws of 2008, are amended to read
     4  as follows:
     5    2. Commits the crime of aggravated harassment in the second degree  in
     6  the  manner proscribed by the provisions of subdivision three of section
     7  240.30 of this article and has been previously convicted of the crime of
     8  aggravated harassment in the second degree for the commission of conduct
     9  proscribed by the provisions of subdivision three of section  240.30  of
    10  this article or [he or she] such person has been previously convicted of
    11  the  crime  of  aggravated  harassment  in  the  first degree within the
    12  preceding ten years; or
    13    5. Either (a) unlawfully discloses confidential information concerning
    14  another person such person intends to harass, annoy, threaten, or  alarm
    15  which  such  person  obtained  from a government agency or any political
    16  subdivision of the state or municipality, in a manner  likely  to  cause
    17  annoyance  or  alarm;  or  (b) unlawfully causes personnel employed by a
    18  governmental agency or any political subdivision of the state or munici-
    19  pality to contact or interact with another person such person intends to
    20  harass, annoy, threaten, or alarm in an official capacity, in  a  manner
    21  likely to cause annoyance or alarm; or
    22    6. Etches, paints, draws upon or otherwise places or displays a noose,
    23  commonly exhibited as a symbol of racism and intimidation, on any build-
    24  ing or other real property, public or private, owned by any person, firm

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  or  corporation or any public agency or instrumentality, without express
     2  permission of the owner or operator of such building or real property.
     3    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
     4  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.