Bill Text: NY S02874 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-12-28 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S02874 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S02874-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2874--A
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 30, 2019
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        Introduced  by Sens. BIAGGI, KAMINSKY, HOYLMAN -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted 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.
                                                                   LBD08857-02-9