New York S 5348: Provides for employment limits for level three sex offenders to outside a five hundred feet radius of a daycare or school

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S05348 Summary:

BILL NOS05348 

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SAME ASSAME AS A00462

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SPONSORCOMRIE

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COSPNSR

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Amd §§240.30 & 240.25, Pen L

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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.

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BILL NOS05348 

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02/20/2025REFERRED TO CODES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CODES

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5348

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 20, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. COMRIE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed 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:

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 5 of section 240.30 of the penal law, as
 2 amended by chapter 188 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as
 3 follows:
 4 5. [He or she] The actor commits the crime of harassment in the first
 5 degree and has previously been convicted of the crime of harassment in
 6 the first degree as defined by section 240.25 of this article within the
 7 preceding ten years, regardless of whether or not the alleged victim of
 8 such harassment is the same victim from such prior offense.
 9 § 2. Section 240.25 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 109 of the
 10 laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
 11 § 240.25 Harassment in the first degree.
 12 A person is guilty of harassment in the first degree when [he or she]:
 13 1. The actor intentionally and repeatedly harasses another person by
 14 following such person in or about a public place or places or by engag-
 15 ing in a course of conduct or by repeatedly committing acts which places
 16 such person in reasonable fear of physical injury; or
 17 2. The actor commits the offense of harassment in the second degree
 18 and has previously been convicted of the crime of harassment in the
 19 second degree as defined by section 240.26 of this article within the
 20 preceding five years, regardless of whether or not the alleged victim of
 21 such harassment is the same victim from such prior offense; or
 22 3. The actor engages in a pattern of harassment of multiple individ-
 23 uals as the term harassment is defined by section 240.26 of this
 24 article.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00697-01-5

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 1 This section shall not apply to activities regulated by the national
 2 labor relations act, as amended, the railway labor act, as amended, or
 3 the federal employment labor management act, as amended.
 4 Harassment in the first degree is a class B misdemeanor.
 5 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
 6 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.

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