Assembly Bill A5792

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the monetary penalties for the crime of aggravated harassment or for discrimination

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2025-A5792 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Governmental Operations
Law Section:
Civil Rights Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §40-d, Civ Rts L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A6121

2025-A5792 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the monetary penalties for the crimes of aggravated harassment in the first or second degrees or for discrimination; provides that such penalty shall be not less than five hundred dollars nor more than twenty-five hundred dollars for the first violation and not less than twenty-five hundred dollars nor more than twelve thousand five hundred dollars for each subsequent violation.

2025-A5792 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5792
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 20, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. NORBER, BROOK-KRASNY, CHANG, NOVAKHOV -- read
   once and referred to the Committee on Governmental Operations
 
 AN ACT to amend the civil rights law,  in  relation  to  increasing  the
   monetary and criminal penalties for aggravated harassment or discrimi-
   nation

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 40-d of the civil rights law, as amended by chapter
 191 of the laws of 1982, is amended to read as follows:
   § 40-d. Penalty for violation. Any person who shall violate any of the
 provisions of the foregoing section, or  subdivision  three  of  section
 240.30  or  section  240.31 of the penal law, or who shall aid or incite
 the violation of any of said provisions shall for [each and  every]  THE
 FIRST  violation  thereof  be liable to a penalty of not less than [one]
 FIVE hundred dollars nor more than [five] TWENTY-FIVE  hundred  dollars,
 AND  FOR EACH SUBSEQUENT VIOLATION THEREOF BE LIABLE TO A PENALTY OF NOT
 LESS THAN TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS NOR MORE THAN TWELVE THOUSAND FIVE
 HUNDRED DOLLARS, to be recovered by the person aggrieved thereby in  any
 court  of  competent  jurisdiction  in the county in which the defendant
 shall reside. In addition, any person  who  shall  violate  any  of  the
 provisions of the foregoing section shall be deemed guilty of a class [A
 misdemeanor]  E  FELONY  FOR  THE  FIRST VIOLATION THEREOF AND A CLASS D
 FELONY FOR ANY SUBSEQUENT VIOLATION THEREOF.  At or before the commence-
 ment of any action under this section, notice thereof  shall  be  served
 upon the attorney general.
   § 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.
                                                            LBD09783-01-5

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