Senate Bill S2301

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to establishing the crime of voyeurism

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • 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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2023-S2301 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A3909
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add §§250.51 & 250.52, amd §250.65, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S6703, A8649
2021-2022: S1053, A2386

2023-S2301 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the crime of voyeurism in the first and second degree which is defined as when someone for their own amusement, entertainment, profit, sexual arousal or sexual gratification trespasses for the purpose of viewing a person dressing or undressing or the sexual or other intimate parts of such person at a place and time when such person has a reasonable expectation of privacy, without such person's knowledge or consent.

2023-S2301 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S2301 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2301
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 19, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. MAYER, ADDABBO, GOUNARDES, THOMAS -- 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 establishing the crime of
   voyeurism in the first and second degree
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. The penal law is amended by adding two new sections 250.51
 and 250.52 to read as follows:
 § 250.51 VOYEURISM IN THE SECOND DEGREE.
   A PERSON IS GUILTY OF VOYEURISM IN THE SECOND DEGREE WHEN:
   1. FOR HIS OR HER OWN AMUSEMENT, ENTERTAINMENT, PROFIT, SEXUAL AROUSAL
 OR SEXUAL GRATIFICATION, OR FOR THE PURPOSE OF DEGRADING  OR  ABUSING  A
 PERSON, HE OR SHE TRESPASSES, AS DEFINED IN SECTION 140.05 OF THIS PART,
 FOR THE PURPOSE OF VIEWING A PERSON DRESSING OR UNDRESSING OR THE SEXUAL
 OR  OTHER  INTIMATE  PARTS  OF SUCH PERSON AT A PLACE AND TIME WHEN SUCH
 PERSON HAS A REASONABLE EXPECTATION OF PRIVACY, AS DEFINED  IN  SUBDIVI-
 SION  ONE OF SECTION 250.40 OF THIS ARTICLE, WITHOUT SUCH PERSON'S KNOW-
 LEDGE OR CONSENT; OR
   2. FOR HIS OR HER OWN AMUSEMENT, ENTERTAINMENT, PROFIT, SEXUAL AROUSAL
 OR SEXUAL GRATIFICATION, OR FOR THE PURPOSE OF DEGRADING  OR  ABUSING  A
 PERSON, THE ACTOR TRESPASSES, AS DEFINED IN SECTION 140.05 OF THIS PART,
 FOR  THE  PURPOSE OF VIEWING A PERSON IN AN IDENTIFIABLE MANNER ENGAGING
 IN SEXUAL CONDUCT, AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION TEN OF  SECTION  130.00  OF
 THIS  PART, AT A PLACE AND TIME WHEN SUCH PERSON HAS A REASONABLE EXPEC-
 TATION OF PRIVACY, AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION ONE OF  SECTION  250.40  OF
 THIS ARTICLE, WITHOUT SUCH PERSON'S KNOWLEDGE OR CONSENT.
   VOYEURISM IN THE SECOND DEGREE IS A CLASS B MISDEMEANOR.
 § 250.52 VOYEURISM IN THE FIRST DEGREE.
   A  PERSON  IS  GUILTY  OF VOYEURISM IN THE FIRST DEGREE WHEN HE OR SHE
 COMMITS THE CRIME OF VOYEURISM IN THE SECOND DEGREE AND HAS BEEN  PREVI-
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD03459-01-3

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