STATE OF NEW YORK
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2724
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 23, 2013
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Introduced by Sen. ADAMS -- 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 harassment of teachers and
school personnel
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 240.33 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 240.33 Aggravated harassment of teachers and school personnel.
4 A person is guilty of aggravated harassment of teachers and school
5 personnel when, with intent to harass, annoy or alarm a person whom he
6 or she knows or reasonably should know to be a teacher, administrator or
7 other staff member of a public or private elementary, intermediate,
8 junior high, vocational or high school, engaged in the course of his or
9 her employment, he or she strikes, shoves or kicks such teacher, admin-
10 istrator or other staff member, and when such conduct takes place on
11 school property as defined in section twenty-eight hundred one of the
12 education law where such teacher, administrator or other staff member is
13 employed or assigned on the date of such conduct.
14 Aggravated harassment of teachers and school personnel is a class B
15 misdemeanor.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
17 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.
LBD05588-01-3
