Bill Text: NY A09642 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Establishes a commission to study how new technologies are being used by individuals, including but not limited to, stalkers and domestic violence perpetrators, to stalk, harass, abuse and continue to victimize their targets.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-31 - print number 9642a [A09642 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A09642-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         9642--A

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 29, 2020
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        Introduced by M. of A. ARROYO -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on  Governmental  Operations  --  committee  discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN ACT to establish a temporary state commission to study the threat  of
          new  technologies  as an extension of domestic violence; and providing
          for the repeal of such provisions upon expiration thereof

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

     1    Section  1.  There is hereby established a temporary commission, to be
     2  known as the "commission to evaluate the manipulation of  new  technolo-
     3  gies to commit domestic violence", hereinafter "the commission", for the
     4  purpose  of studying how new technologies are being used by individuals,
     5  including but not limited to, stalkers and domestic  violence  perpetra-
     6  tors, to abuse, harass and victimize their targets.
     7    §  2.  The commission shall consist of nine members to be appointed as
     8  follows:
     9    (a) five members to be appointed by the governor;
    10    (b) one member to be appointed  by  the  temporary  president  of  the
    11  senate;
    12    (c) one member to be appointed by the speaker of the assembly;
    13    (d)  one  member to be appointed by the minority leader of the senate;
    14  and
    15    (e) one member to be appointed by the minority leader of the assembly.
    16    § 3. (a) The commission shall study how  new  technologies  are  being
    17  used  by  individuals  to stalk, harass, abuse and continue to victimize
    18  their targets by studying issues including but not limited to:
    19    (i) what current technologies are being used  by  individuals  against
    20  their targets;
    21    (ii)  how  individuals  are using such technologies to victimize their
    22  targets;
    23    (iii) comparative state policies that have aided in creating a regula-
    24  tory structure for such technologies and whether such measures would  be
    25  similarly effective in this state; and

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD14197-03-0
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     1    (iv) the potential impact on the technology industry of any regulatory
     2  measures proposed by this study.
     3    (b)  The commission shall prepare and publish a report of its findings
     4  and recommendations on how state law needs  to  be  updated  to  protect
     5  possible  victims  and current victims of stalking and domestic violence
     6  from the threat of such new technologies.
     7    § 4. The members of the commission shall receive no  compensation  for
     8  their services, but shall be allowed their actual and necessary expenses
     9  incurred in the performance of their duties pursuant to this act.
    10    § 5. In conducting such study, the commission may conduct any hearings
    11  or take any written testimony as it deems necessary and may consult with
    12  any state or local office, agency, or department and request information
    13  from  any such entity that is relevant and material to the completion of
    14  this study and report.
    15    § 6. The commission shall submit a report detailing  the  findings  of
    16  the  study  to  the governor, the speaker of the assembly, the temporary
    17  president of the senate, the minority  leader  of  the  senate  and  the
    18  minority leader of the assembly by September 1, 2021.
    19    §  7. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire December
    20  31, 2021 when upon such date the provisions of this act shall be  deemed
    21  repealed.