Assembly Bill A1759

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Increases penalty for harassment when conduct is committed on school grounds or to a child

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-A1759 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง240.30, Pen L
Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
A2657

2009-A1759 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Makes conduct constituting harassment in the second degree into aggravated harassment in the second degree when such conduct is committed on school grounds or to a child, thus increasing punishment from a violation to a class A misdemeanor.

2009-A1759 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  1759

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 12, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. MORELLE -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Codes

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation 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:

  Section 1. Section 240.30 of the penal law is amended by adding a  new
subdivision 3-a to read as follows:
  3-A.  COMMITS  ANY  OF THE FOLLOWING TO A PERSON ON SCHOOL GROUNDS, AS
THAT TERM IS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION FOURTEEN OF SECTION 220.00  OF  THIS
CHAPTER, OR TO A PERSON UNDER SIXTEEN YEARS OF AGE:
  A.  STRIKES,  SHOVES, KICKS OR OTHERWISE SUBJECTS SUCH PERSON TO PHYS-
ICAL CONTACT, OR ATTEMPTS OR THREATENS TO DO THE SAME; OR
  B. FOLLOWS SUCH PERSON IN OR ABOUT A PUBLIC PLACE OR PLACES; OR
  C. ENGAGES IN A COURSE OF CONDUCT OR  REPEATEDLY  COMMITS  ACTS  WHICH
ALARM  OR  SERIOUSLY  ANNOY  SUCH  PERSON  AND WHICH SERVE NO LEGITIMATE
PURPOSE; OR
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
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.
                                                           LBD04135-01-9

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