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Assembly Bill A8609

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Includes aggravated harassment in the first degree under a specified offense

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2013-A8609 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6315
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §485.05, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A4485, S3138
2017-2018: A5961, S1856
2019-2020: A6759
2021-2022: A5743
2023-2024: A4840
2025-2026: A5475

2013-A8609 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes aggravated harassment in the first degree under a specified offense.

2013-A8609 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  8609

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 28, 2014
                               ___________

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

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to a specified offense

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision  3  of  section  485.05  of the penal law, as
amended by chapter 405 of the laws  of  2010,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  3. A "specified offense" is an offense defined by any of the following
provisions  of  this  chapter:  section  120.00  (assault  in  the third
degree); section 120.05 (assault in the second degree);  section  120.10
(assault in the first degree); section 120.12 (aggravated assault upon a
person  less  than  eleven  years  old); section 120.13 (menacing in the
first degree); section 120.14 (menacing in the second  degree);  section
120.15  (menacing  in the third degree); section 120.20 (reckless endan-
germent in the second degree); section 120.25 (reckless endangerment  in
the  first degree); section 121.12 (strangulation in the second degree);
section 121.13 (strangulation in the first degree); subdivision  one  of
section 125.15 (manslaughter in the second degree); subdivision one, two
or  four  of  section 125.20 (manslaughter in the first degree); section
125.25 (murder in the second degree); section 120.45  (stalking  in  the
fourth  degree);  section 120.50 (stalking in the third degree); section
120.55 (stalking in the second degree); section 120.60 (stalking in  the
first  degree);  subdivision  one  of  section 130.35 (rape in the first
degree); subdivision one of section 130.50 (criminal sexual act  in  the
first  degree);  subdivision  one of section 130.65 (sexual abuse in the
first degree); paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision  one  of  section  130.67
(aggravated  sexual abuse in the second degree); paragraph (a) of subdi-
vision one of section 130.70  (aggravated  sexual  abuse  in  the  first
degree);  section  135.05  (unlawful imprisonment in the second degree);
section 135.10 (unlawful imprisonment  in  the  first  degree);  section
135.20  (kidnapping in the second degree); section 135.25 (kidnapping in
the first degree); section  135.60  (coercion  in  the  second  degree);
section  135.65 (coercion in the first degree); section 140.10 (criminal

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

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