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Assembly Bill A413

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to unlawful surveillance in the first degree

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2025-A413 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Rules
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §250.50, Pen L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A10688

2025-A413 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Expands unlawful surveillance in the first degree to include instances where the surveillance is of a person who has an active order of protection against them.

2025-A413 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    413
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. VANEL -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to unlawful  surveillance  in
   the first degree
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 250.50 of the penal law, as added by chapter 69  of
 the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
 § 250.50 Unlawful surveillance in the first degree.
   A  person  is guilty of unlawful surveillance in the first degree when
 [he or she] SUCH PERSON:
   1. commits the crime of unlawful surveillance in the second degree and
 has been previously convicted within the  past  ten  years  of  unlawful
 surveillance in the first or second degree; OR
   2.  COMMITS  THE  CRIME  OF UNLAWFUL SURVEILLANCE IN THE SECOND DEGREE
 AGAINST A PERSON WHO HAS AN ACTIVE ORDER OF PROTECTION AGAINST THEM; OR
   3. COMMITS THE CRIME OF UNLAWFUL SURVEILLANCE  IN  THE  SECOND  DEGREE
 AGAINST  A  PERSON WITH THE INTENT TO BENEFIT A PERSON WHO HAS AN ACTIVE
 ORDER OF PROTECTION AGAINST THE PERSON SURVEILLED.
   Unlawful surveillance in the first degree is a class D felony.
   § 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.
                                                            LBD01931-01-5

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