Senate Bill S1562

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to disorderly conduct

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Children And Families Committee


  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2021-S1562 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A365
Current Committee:
Senate Children And Families
Law Section:
Family Court Act
Laws Affected:
Amd §812, Fam Ct Act; amd §530.11, CP L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S6786, A8766
2023-2024: S2074, A4419

2021-S1562 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Modifies the definition of disorderly conduct for family offense proceedings to not require an intent to cause public inconvenience, annoyance or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk thereof, but merely an intent to cause annoyance or alarm, or recklessly creating a risk thereof.

2021-S1562 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S1562 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1562
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 13, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MAY  --  read  twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Children and Families
 
 AN ACT to amend the family court act and the criminal procedure law,  in
   relation to disorderly conduct
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 1 of  section  812  of
 the  family court act, as amended by chapter 109 of the laws of 2019, is
 amended to read as follows:
   The family court and the criminal courts shall have concurrent  juris-
 diction  over  any  proceeding  concerning  acts  which would constitute
 disorderly conduct AS SET FORTH IN SUBDIVISIONS ONE, THREE, FOUR,  FIVE,
 SIX AND SEVEN OF SECTION 240.20 OF THE PENAL LAW, unlawful dissemination
 or  publication  of  an  intimate image, harassment in the first degree,
 harassment in the second degree, aggravated  harassment  in  the  second
 degree,  sexual misconduct, forcible touching, sexual abuse in the third
 degree, sexual abuse in the second degree as set  forth  in  subdivision
 one  of  section  130.60 of the penal law, stalking in the first degree,
 stalking in the second degree, stalking in the third degree, stalking in
 the fourth degree, criminal mischief, menacing  in  the  second  degree,
 menacing   in   the   third   degree,  reckless  endangerment,  criminal
 obstruction of breathing or  blood  circulation,  strangulation  in  the
 second  degree, strangulation in the first degree, assault in the second
 degree, assault in the third  degree,  an  attempted  assault,  identity
 theft in the first degree, identity theft in the second degree, identity
 theft  in  the  third  degree, grand larceny in the fourth degree, grand
 larceny in the third degree, coercion in the second degree  or  coercion
 in  the  third degree as set forth in subdivisions one, two and three of
 section 135.60 of the penal law between spouses or  former  spouses,  or
 between parent and child or between members of the same family or house-
 hold  except  that if the respondent would not be criminally responsible
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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