Bill Text: NY A05613 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Curtails transmission of unsolicited electronic mail over public computer networks; creates crime of aggravated harassment of an individual through electronic mail and makes it a class A misdemeanor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-04-06 - enacting clause stricken [A05613 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A05613-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         5613
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   February 24, 2011
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       Introduced by M. of A. GIBSON -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Codes
       AN  ACT  to amend the penal law, in relation to aggravated harassment of
         an individual through electronic mail
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. Section 240.30 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
    2  subdivision 1-a to read as follows:
    3    1-A. TRANSMITS AN ELECTRONIC MESSAGE OVER A COMPUTER  NETWORK  WITHOUT
    4  THE  EXPRESS  AUTHORITY  OF  THE  RECIPIENT,  WHEN SUCH MESSAGE PROVIDES
    5  NEITHER ANY PURPOSE OF LEGITIMATE COMMUNICATION NOR ANY  INFORMATION  TO
    6  THE  RECIPIENT  WHICH WOULD ALLOW A DIRECT REPLY TO INFORM THE SENDER OF
    7  THE ANNOYANCE; OR
    8    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    9  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.
                                                                  LBD02480-01-1