Bill Text: NY S05306 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Adds communication by means of a computer network to aggravated harassment in the second degree.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO CODES [S05306 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-S05306-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 5306 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E May 16, 2013 ___________ Introduced by Sen. NOZZOLIO -- 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 adding by means of comput- er network to the crime 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 1 of section 240.30 of the penal law, as 2 amended by chapter 510 of the laws of 2008, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 1. Either (a) communicates with a person, anonymously or otherwise, by 5 telephone, by telegraph, or by mail, or by transmitting or delivering 6 any other form of written communication, in a manner likely to cause 7 annoyance or alarm; or 8 (b) causes a communication to be initiated by mechanical or electronic 9 means OR COMPUTER NETWORK, AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION SIX OF SECTION 10 156.00 OF THIS CHAPTER, or otherwise with a person, anonymously or 11 otherwise, by telephone, by telegraph, or by mail, or by transmitting or 12 delivering any other form of written communication, in a manner likely 13 to cause annoyance or alarm; or 14 S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 15 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. LBD00886-01-3