Assembly Bill A7436

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Provides that a person is guilty of harassment in the first degree if such person strikes, shoves, kicks, et cetera a school employee

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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-A7436 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1611
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§240.00 & 240.25, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A844
2011-2012: A1130
2013-2014: A330
2015-2016: A3919
2017-2018: A1578
2019-2020: A2273
2021-2022: A5973
2023-2024: A2007, S5928

2025-A7436 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that a person is guilty of harassment in the first degree, a class B misdemeanor, when such person strikes, shoves, kicks or otherwise subjects a school employee to physical contact or attempts or threatens to do the same while such school employee is engaged in the performance of such person's duties as a school employee.

2025-A7436 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7436
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 27, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. HAWLEY -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the penal law, in relation to harassment 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 240.00 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 8 to read as follows:
   8. "SCHOOL EMPLOYEE" MEANS ANY PERSON EMPLOYED  BY  AN  ELEMENTARY  OR
 SECONDARY  SCHOOL, PUBLIC OR PRIVATE, OR BY THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OR OTHER
 ENTITY ADMINISTERING SUCH SCHOOL.
   § 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:
   1. [he or she]  SUCH  PERSON  intentionally  and  repeatedly  harasses
 another person by following such OTHER person in or about a public place
 or places or by engaging in a course of conduct or by repeatedly commit-
 ting  acts  which [places] PLACE such OTHER person in reasonable fear of
 physical injury, OR
   2. SUCH PERSON STRIKES, SHOVES, KICKS OR OTHERWISE SUBJECTS  A  SCHOOL
 EMPLOYEE  TO  PHYSICAL CONTACT, OR ATTEMPTS OR THREATENS TO DO THE SAME,
 WHILE SUCH SCHOOL EMPLOYEE IS ENGAGED IN OR ON ACCOUNT OF  THE  PERFORM-
 ANCE  OF  THE  DUTIES  OF SUCH SCHOOL EMPLOYEE.   This section shall not
 apply to activities regulated by the national labor  relations  act,  as
 amended,  the  railway  labor act, as amended, or the federal employment
 labor management act, as amended.
   Harassment in the first degree is a class B misdemeanor.
   § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02566-01-5

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