Bill Text: NY A00544 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Includes contacts via text, email, private message, direct message or other electronic communication in the definition of the offense of aggravated harassment in the second degree.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to codes [A00544 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           544

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M. of A. BRAUNSTEIN, SEAWRIGHT -- read once and referred
          to the Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation  to  including  contacts  via
          text, email or other electronic communication in the definition of the
          offense of aggravated harassment in the second degree

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

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of  section  240.30  of  the  penal  law,  as
     2  amended  by  chapter  188  of  the  laws  of 2014, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    2. With intent to harass or threaten another person, he or she makes a
     5  telephone call, or contacts via text, email or other electronic communi-
     6  cation, whether or not a conversation ensues, with no purpose of legiti-
     7  mate communication; or
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
     9  ing the date upon which it shall have become a law. Effective immediate-
    10  ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal  of  any  rule  or  regulation
    11  necessary  for  the implementation of this act on its effective date are
    12  authorized to be made on or before such date.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03432-01-1