New York Assembly Bill A07865 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7865 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY July 7, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime of sexual harassment 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 240.33 to 2 read as follows: 3 § 240.33 Sexual harassment. 4 A person is guilty of sexual harassment when, with the purpose of 5 sexual arousal or gratification, and without consent, he or she slaps, 6 strikes, shoves or kicks another person, or otherwise subjects such 7 other person to physical contact, or attempts, or threatens to do the 8 same. 9 Sexual harassment is a class A misdemeanor. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 11 ing the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD08764-01-3