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