Bill Text: NY A07382 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 7382 (Prior Session Legislation)

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to codes [A07382 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A07382-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         7382--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 29, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. NIOU -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes -- reported and referred to the Committee on Codes -- commit-
          tee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and  recom-
          mitted to said committee

        AN  ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing 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,  or  otherwise  subjects  such
     7  other  person  to  physical contact, or attempts, or threatens to do the
     8  same.
     9    Sexual harassment is a class A misdemeanor.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    11  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.
                                                                   LBD08857-03-9