New York S 662: Relates to the assault on sports officials and harassment of a sports official and the provision of information to the spectators of such sporting events

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S00662 Summary:

BILL NOS00662A

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SAME ASSAME AS A03422-A

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SPONSORGALLIVAN

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COSPNSRBORRELLO, HELMING, MURRAY, OBERACKER, RHOADS, TEDISCO

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §120.05, add §240.34, Pen L

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Establishes the crime of assault on sports officials and harassment of a sports official; makes harassment of a sports official a violation; requires the state education department to establish an information campaign to be distributed to all youth and school sports programs requiring such programs to disseminate information to parents and other spectators of such programs on the protections afforded sports officials.

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BILL NOS00662A

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO CODES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CODES

03/10/2026AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CODES

03/10/2026PRINT NUMBER 662A

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 662--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. GALLIVAN, BORRELLO, HELMING, MURRAY, OBERACKER,
 RHOADS, TEDISCO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to
 be committed to the Committee on Codes -- recommitted to the Committee
 on Codes in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee
 discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
 to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the assault on sports
 officials

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 14 of section 120.05 of the penal law, as added
 2 by chapter 268 of the laws of 2016, is amended and a new subdivision 15
 3 is added to read as follows:
 4 14. With intent to prevent or obstruct a process server, as defined in
 5 section eighty-nine-t of the general business law, from performing a
 6 lawful duty pursuant to article three of the civil practice law and
 7 rules, or intentionally, as retaliation against such a process server
 8 for the performance of the process server's duties pursuant to such
 9 article, including by means of releasing or failing to control an animal
 10 evincing the actor's intent that the animal prevent or obstruct the
 11 lawful duty of the process server or as retaliation against the process
 12 server, [he or she] such person causes physical injury to such process
 13 server[.]; or
 14 15. With intent to cause physical injury to a sports official, which
 15 shall include umpires, referees, judges, linesmen, coaches, assistant
 16 coaches, and any other person participating in an official or substitute
 17 capacity at a sports contest, such person causes such injury to such
 18 sports official in or on or within any building, structure, athletic
 19 playing field or playground at which the sports contest including pre-
 20 game and post-game activities are conducted; including any and all

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD02625-03-5

 S. 662--A 2

 1 surrounding parking facilities or areas designated for parking for such
 2 sports contests.
 3 § 2. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 240.34 to read
 4 as follows:
 5 § 240.34 Harassment of a sports official.
 6 A person is guilty of aggravated harassment of a sports official when,
 7 with intent to harass, annoy, threaten or alarm a sports official, which
 8 shall include umpires, referees, judges, linesmen, coaches, assistant
 9 coaches, and any other person participating in an official or substitute
 10 capacity at a sports contest, such person:
 11 1. Strikes, shoves, kicks or otherwise subjects such sports official
 12 to physical contact, or attempts to threaten to do the same;
 13 2. Causes or attempts to cause such sports official to come into
 14 contact with saliva by expelling such fluid at a sports contest; or
 15 3. Communicates a threat to cause physical harm to, or unlawful harm
 16 to the property of a sports official, and the person knows or reasonably
 17 should know that such communication will cause such sports official to
 18 reasonably fear harm to