New York Senate Bill S02025 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2025 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 18, 2023 ___________ 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 has been previously convicted of the crime of 11 aggravated harassment in the first degree within the preceding ten 12 years; or 13 5. Either (a) unlawfully discloses confidential information concerning 14 the person he or she intends to harass, annoy, threaten, or alarm which 15 he or she obtained from a government agency or any political subdivision 16 of the state or municipality, in a manner likely to cause annoyance or 17 alarm; or (b) unlawfully causes personnel employed by a governmental 18 agency or any political subdivision of the state or municipality to 19 contact or interact with the person he or she intends to harass, annoy, 20 threaten, or alarm in an official capacity, in a manner likely to cause 21 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. LBD04232-01-3 
 S. 2025 2 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.