Bill Text: NY A00413 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Expands unlawful surveillance in the first degree to include instances where the surveillance is of a person who has an active order of protection against them.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - referred to codes [A00413 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A00413-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           413

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
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        Introduced  by M. of A. VANEL -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to unlawful  surveillance  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. Section 250.50 of the penal law, as added by chapter 69  of
     2  the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
     3  § 250.50 Unlawful surveillance in the first degree.
     4    A  person  is guilty of unlawful surveillance in the first degree when
     5  [he or she] such person:
     6    1. commits the crime of unlawful surveillance in the second degree and
     7  has been previously convicted within the  past  ten  years  of  unlawful
     8  surveillance in the first or second degree; or
     9    2.  commits  the  crime  of unlawful surveillance in the second degree
    10  against a person who has an active order of protection against them; or
    11    3. commits the crime of unlawful surveillance  in  the  second  degree
    12  against  a  person with the intent to benefit a person who has an active
    13  order of protection against the person surveilled.
    14    Unlawful surveillance in the first degree is a class D felony.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    16  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD01931-01-5