Assembly Bill A897

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Includes the use of a governmental agency to harass a person within the crime of harassment in the first degree

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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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2015-A897 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3000
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง240.31, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A10708, S6750
2011-2012: A2066, S1242
2013-2014: A256, S3967
2017-2018: A3956, S3071
2019-2020: A1226, S3119
2021-2022: S3455
2023-2024: S2025

2015-A897 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes the use of a governmental agency to harass a person within the crime of aggravated harassment in the first degree.

2015-A897 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                   897

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             January 8, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. MILLER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BARCLAY,
  COLTON,  CROUCH,  HOOPER, SCARBOROUGH -- read once and referred to the
  Committee on Codes

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to including  the  use  of  a
  governmental  agency to harass a person within the crime of aggravated
  harassment in the first degree

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Section 240.31 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 49
of the laws of 2006, subdivisions 3 and 4 as amended and  subdivision  5
as  added  by  chapter  74  of  the  laws of 2008, is amended to read as
follows:
S 240.31 Aggravated harassment in the first degree.
  A person is guilty of aggravated harassment in the first  degree  when
with  intent to harass, annoy, threaten or alarm another person, because
of a belief or perception regarding such person's race, color,  national
origin,  ancestry, gender, religion, religious practice, age, disability
or sexual orientation, regardless of whether the belief or perception is
correct, he or she:
  1. Damages premises primarily used for religious purposes, or acquired
pursuant to section six of the religious corporation law and  maintained
for  purposes  of  religious instruction, and the damage to the premises
exceeds fifty dollars; or
  2. Commits the crime of aggravated harassment in the second degree  in
the  manner proscribed by the provisions of subdivision three of section
240.30 of this article and has been previously convicted of the crime of
aggravated harassment in the second degree for the commission of conduct
proscribed by the provisions of subdivision three of section  240.30  or
he  or  she  has  been  previously  convicted of the crime of aggravated
harassment in the first degree within the preceding ten years; or

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD02717-01-5

              

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