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Assembly Bill A3465

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to establishing the crime of domestic violence

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2025-A3465 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add §240.80, Pen L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A6137

2025-A3465 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the crime of domestic violence punishable as a class A misdemeanor.

2025-A3465 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3465
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 27, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN  ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime of
   domestic violence
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 240.80 to
 read as follows:
 § 240.80 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.
   1. A PERSON IS GUILTY OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE WHEN SUCH PERSON COMMITS  A
 SPECIFIED  MISDEMEANOR  DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION THREE OF THIS SECTION AND
 WHERE THERE WAS A SPECIFIED RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE DEFENDANT  AND  THE
 PERSON  AGAINST WHOM THE OFFENSE WAS COMMITTED AS DEFINED IN SUBDIVISION
 TWO OF THIS SECTION.
   2. A "SPECIFIED RELATIONSHIP" IS ONE WHERE  (A)  THE  DEFENDANT  IS  A
 CURRENT  OR  FORMER  SPOUSE,  PARENT  OR GUARDIAN OF THE VICTIM; (B) THE
 DEFENDANT IS A PERSON WITH WHOM THE VICTIM SHARES A CHILD IN COMMON; (C)
 THE DEFENDANT IS A PERSON WHO IS COHABITATING WITH  OR  HAS  COHABITATED
 WITH THE VICTIM AS A SPOUSE, PARENT OR GUARDIAN; OR (D) THE DEFENDANT IS
 A  PERSON  SIMILARLY  SITUATED  TO  A  SPOUSE, PARENT OR GUARDIAN OF THE
 VICTIM.
   3. A "SPECIFIED MISDEMEANOR" IS AN OFFENSE DEFINED IN  SECTION  120.00
 (ASSAULT  IN  THE  THIRD DEGREE); SECTION 120.14 (MENACING IN THE SECOND
 DEGREE); SECTION 121.11 (CRIMINAL  OBSTRUCTION  OF  BREATHING  OR  BLOOD
 CIRCULATION);  SECTION  130.52  (FORCIBLE  TOUCHING);  OR SECTION 240.30
 (AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT IN THE SECOND DEGREE) OF THIS PART.
   DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS A CLASS A MISDEMEANOR.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06042-01-5

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