Bill Text: NY A07082 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to the crime of sexual harassment; makes such crime a class A misdemeanor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to codes [A07082 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A07082-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          7082
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                      April 5, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. SIMOTAS -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Codes
        AN ACT to amend the penal law,  in  relation  to  the  crime  of  sexual
          harassment
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 240.33  to
     2  read as follows:
     3  § 240.33 Sexual harassment.
     4    A  person  is  guilty  of  sexual harassment when, with the purpose of
     5  sexual arousal or gratification, and without consent, he or  she  slaps,
     6  strikes, shoves or kicks another person.
     7    Sexual harassment is a class A misdemeanor.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
     9  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.
                                                                   LBD06093-01-9
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