New York A 7436: 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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A07436 Summary:

BILL NOA07436 

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SAME ASSAME AS S01611

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SPONSORHawley

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COSPNSRMcDonough, Sempolinski, DeStefano, Brown K

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§240.00 & 240.25, Pen L

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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.

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BILL NOA07436 

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03/27/2025referred to codes

01/07/2026referred to codes

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 7436

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 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:

 1 Section 1. Section 240.00 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
 2 subdivision 8 to read as follows:
 3 8. "School employee" means any person employed by an elementary or
 4 secondary school, public or private, or by the school district or other
 5 entity administering such school.
 6 § 2. Section 240.25 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 109 of the
 7 laws of 1994, is amended to read as follows:
 8 § 240.25 Harassment in the first degree.
 9 A person is guilty of harassment in the first degree when:
 10 1. [he or she] such person intentionally and repeatedly harasses
 11 another person by following such other person in or about a public place
 12 or places or by engaging in a course of conduct or by repeatedly commit-
 13 ting acts which [places] place such other person in reasonable fear of
 14 physical injury, or
 15 2. such person strikes, shoves, kicks or otherwise subjects a school
 16 employee to physical contact, or attempts or threatens to do the same,
 17 while such school employee is engaged in or on account of the perform-
 18 ance of the duties of such school employee. This section shall not
 19 apply to activities regulated by the national labor relations act, as
 20 amended, the railway labor act, as amended, or the federal employment
 21 labor management act, as amended.
 22 Harassment in the first degree is a class B misdemeanor.
 23 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
 24 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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