Bill Text: NY S04721 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Makes conducting unlawful surveillance by use of a drone unlawful surveillance in the second degree.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CODES [S04721 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S04721-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4721

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 14, 2023
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        Introduced  by  Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the  penal  law,  in  relation  to  conducting  unlawful
          surveillance by use of a drone

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

     1    Section 1. Section 250.45 of the penal law is amended by adding a  new
     2  subdivision 6 to read as follows:
     3    6.  Without  the  knowledge  or  consent of a person, he or she inten-
     4  tionally uses or permits the utilization of a device to  surreptitiously
     5  view,  broadcast,  or  record another person, by means of aerial imaging
     6  technology, at a place and time when a person has a reasonable  expecta-
     7  tion of privacy.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09537-01-3