Bill Text: NY A09955 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 9955

Introduced

Bill Title: Establishes that when an actor threatens to disseminate or publish a still or video image depicting such other person with one or more intimate parts exposed or engaging in sexual conduct with another person, including a still or video image created or altered by digitization, where such person may reasonably be identified from the still or video image itself or from information displayed in connection with the still or video image within the provisions of unlawful dissemination or publication of an intimate image.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-04-26 - referred to codes [A09955 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A09955-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          9955

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 26, 2024
                                       ___________

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

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to a threat to share an inti-
          mate image

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section  245.15  of the penal law, as
     2  amended by chapter 513 of the laws  of  2023,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    1.  A  person is guilty of unlawful dissemination or publication of an
     5  intimate image when:
     6    (a) with intent to cause harm to the emotional, financial or  physical
     7  welfare  of  another person, they intentionally disseminate or publish a
     8  still or video image or threaten to disseminate or publish  a  still  or
     9  video image depicting such other person, with one or more intimate parts
    10  exposed  or  engaging  in  sexual conduct with another person, including
    11  [an] a still or video image created or altered  by  digitization,  where
    12  such  person  may reasonably be identified from the still or video image
    13  itself or from information displayed in connection  with  the  still  or
    14  video image; and
    15    (b)  the  actor  knew  or reasonably should have known that the person
    16  depicted did not consent to such dissemination or publication, including
    17  the dissemination or publication of [an] a still or  video  image  taken
    18  with  the  consent of the person depicted when such person had a reason-
    19  able expectation that the still or video  image  would  remain  private,
    20  regardless  of  whether  the  actor was present when such still or video
    21  image was taken.
    22    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13498-03-3