Bill Text: NY A07865 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to codes [A07865 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A07865-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          7865

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      July 7, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes

        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.
                                                                   LBD08764-01-3