A2239 • 2025

Includes contacts via text, email, private message, direct message or other electronic communication in the definition of the offense of aggravated harassment in the second degree

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Sponsor: Edward Braunstein
Last action: 2026-04-28
Official status: Passed Senate
Effective date: Not listed

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Includes contacts via text, email, private message, direct message or other electronic communication in the definition of the offense of aggravated harassment in the second degree

Includes contacts via text, email, private message, direct message or other electronic communication in the definition of the offense of aggravated harassment in the second degree Includes contacts via text, email, private message, direct message or other electronic communication in the definition of the offense of aggravated harassment in the second degree.

What This Bill Does

Includes contacts via text, email, private message, direct message or other electronic communication in the definition of the offense of aggravated harassment in the second degree Includes contacts via text, email, private message, direct message or other electronic communication in the definition of the offense of aggravated harassment in the second degree.

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Bill History

2026-04-28 Senate
SUBSTITUTED FOR S2273
2026-04-28 Senate
3RD READING CAL.797
2026-04-28 Senate
PASSED SENATE
2026-04-28 Senate
RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
2026-01-27 Assembly
PASSED ASSEMBLY
2026-01-27 Assembly
DELIVERED TO SENATE
2026-01-27 Senate
REFERRED TO CODES
2026-01-22 Assembly
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING CAL.230
2026-01-21 Assembly
REPORTED
2026-01-07 Assembly
REFERRED TO CODES
2025-01-15 Assembly
REFERRED TO CODES

Official Summary Text

Includes contacts via text, email, private message, direct message or other electronic communication in the definition of the offense of aggravated harassment in the second degree
Includes contacts via text, email, private message, direct message or other electronic communication in the definition of the offense of aggravated harassment in the second degree.

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S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2239

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                                  I N  A S S E M B L Y

                                    January 15, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M. of A. BRAUNSTEIN, SEAWRIGHT, WOERNER -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation  to  including  contacts  via
          text,  private  message,  direct  message,  email  or other electronic
          communication in the definition of the offense of  aggravated  harass-
          ment in the second degree

          THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
        BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 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    2. With intent to harass or threaten another person, [he or she]  SUCH
     5  PERSON  makes  a  telephone call, OR CONTACTS VIA TEXT, PRIVATE MESSAGE,
     6  DIRECT MESSAGE, EMAIL OR OTHER ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION, whether or  not
     7  a conversation ensues, with no purpose of legitimate communication; or
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
     9  ing  the  date  upon  which it shall have become a law.  Effective imme-
    10  diately, the addition, amendment and/or repeal of any rule or regulation
    11  necessary for the implementation of this act on its effective  date  are
    12  authorized to be made and completed on or before such effective date.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04009-01-5