Assembly Bill A462

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to repeated instances of harassment giving rise to a charge of aggravated harassment in the second degree and harassment in the first degree

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly 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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2025-A462 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5348
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§240.30 & 240.25, Pen L
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A7928, S8904

2025-A462 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to repeated instances of harassment giving rise to a charge of aggravated harassment in the second degree and harassment in the first degree; clarifies that the victim of such separate offenses does not need to be the same individual.

2025-A462 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    462
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. STECK -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in  relation  to  repeated  instances  of
   harassment
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 5 of  section  240.30  of  the  penal  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  188  of  the  laws  of 2014, is amended to read as
 follows:
   5. [He or she] THE ACTOR commits the crime of harassment in the  first
 degree  and  has previously been convicted of the crime of harassment in
 the first degree as defined by section 240.25 of this article within the
 preceding ten years, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT THE ALLEGED VICTIM  OF
 SUCH HARASSMENT IS THE SAME VICTIM FROM SUCH PRIOR OFFENSE.
   § 2. Section 240.25 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 109 of the
 laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
 § 240.25 Harassment in the first degree.
   A person is guilty of harassment in the first degree when [he or she]:
   1.  THE  ACTOR intentionally and repeatedly harasses another person by
 following such person in or about a public place or places or by  engag-
 ing in a course of conduct or by repeatedly committing acts which places
 such person in reasonable fear of physical injury; OR
   2.  THE  ACTOR  COMMITS THE OFFENSE OF HARASSMENT IN THE SECOND DEGREE
 AND HAS PREVIOUSLY BEEN CONVICTED OF THE  CRIME  OF  HARASSMENT  IN  THE
 SECOND  DEGREE  AS  DEFINED BY SECTION 240.26 OF THIS ARTICLE WITHIN THE
 PRECEDING FIVE YEARS, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER OR NOT THE ALLEGED VICTIM OF
 SUCH HARASSMENT IS THE SAME VICTIM FROM SUCH PRIOR OFFENSE; OR
   3. THE ACTOR ENGAGES IN A PATTERN OF HARASSMENT OF  MULTIPLE  INDIVID-
 UALS  AS  THE  TERM  HARASSMENT  IS  DEFINED  BY  SECTION 240.26 OF THIS
 ARTICLE.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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