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Assembly Bill A9061

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to creating the crime of aggravated harassment of a survivor of domestic violence or sexual assault

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2025-A9061 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3935
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add §240.34, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S8080
2021-2022: A8687, S1880
2023-2024: A7922, S2789

2025-A9061 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to creating the crime of aggravated harassment of a survivor of domestic violence or sexual assault.

2025-A9061 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9061
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             September 5, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. SIMON -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation  to  creating  the  crime  of
   aggravated  harassment  of  a  survivor of domestic violence or sexual
   assault
 
   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 240.34 to
 read as follows:
 § 240.34 AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT OF A SURVIVOR  OF  DOMESTIC  VIOLENCE  OR
            SEXUAL ASSAULT.
   A  PERSON IS GUILTY OF AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT OF A SURVIVOR OF DOMESTIC
 VIOLENCE OR SEXUAL ASSAULT WHEN SUCH PERSON COMMITS THE CRIME OF  AGGRA-
 VATED  HARASSMENT  IN THE SECOND DEGREE AS DEFINED BY SUBDIVISION ONE OF
 SECTION 240.30 OF THIS ARTICLE WITH A BELIEF  OR  PERCEPTION  THAT  SUCH
 OTHER  PERSON  IS THE VICTIM OF OR IS A SURVIVOR OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE OR
 SEXUAL ASSAULT.
   AGGRAVATED HARASSMENT OF A SURVIVOR OF  DOMESTIC  VIOLENCE  OR  SEXUAL
 ASSAULT IS A CLASS E FELONY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
 ing the date upon which it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06487-01-5

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