STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 11344 IN ASSEMBLY September 19, 2018 ___________ Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Braunstein, Seawright) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to including contacts via text, email or other electronic communication in the definition of the offense of aggravated harassment in the second degree The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 240.30 of the penal law, as 2 amended by chapter 188 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 2. With intent to harass or threaten another person, he or she makes a 5 telephone call, or contacts via text, email or other electronic communi- 6 cation, whether or not a conversation ensues, with no purpose of legiti- 7 mate communication; or 8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 9 ing the date upon which it shall have become a law. Effective immediate- 10 ly, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation 11 necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective date are 12 authorized to be made on or before such date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD16470-01-8