Bill Text: NY A06121 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases the monetary penalties for the crimes of aggravated harassment in the first or second degrees or for discrimination; provides that such penalty shall be not less than five hundred dollars nor more than twenty-five hundred dollars for the first violation and not less than twenty-five hundred dollars nor more than twelve thousand five hundred dollars for each subsequent violation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to governmental operations [A06121 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A06121-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6121

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      April 3, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. CURRAN -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Governmental Operations

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  civil rights law, in relation to increasing the
          monetary and criminal penalties for aggravated harassment or discrimi-
          nation

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

     1    Section 1. Section 40-d of the civil rights law, as amended by chapter
     2  191 of the laws of 1982, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 40-d. Penalty for violation. Any person who shall violate any of the
     4  provisions  of  the  foregoing  section, or subdivision three of section
     5  240.30 or section 240.31 of the penal law, or who shall  aid  or  incite
     6  the  violation  of any of said provisions shall for [each and every] the
     7  first violation thereof be liable to a penalty of not  less  than  [one]
     8  five  hundred  dollars nor more than [five] twenty-five hundred dollars,
     9  and for each subsequent violation thereof be liable to a penalty of  not
    10  less than twenty-five hundred dollars nor more than twelve thousand five
    11  hundred  dollars, to be recovered by the person aggrieved thereby in any
    12  court of competent jurisdiction in the county  in  which  the  defendant
    13  shall  reside.  In  addition,  any  person  who shall violate any of the
    14  provisions of the foregoing section shall be deemed guilty of a class [A
    15  misdemeanor] E felony for the first violation  thereof  and  a  class  D
    16  felony for any subsequent violation thereof.  At or before the commence-
    17  ment  of  any  action under this section, notice thereof shall be served
    18  upon the attorney general.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    20  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.
                                                                   LBD10537-01-3