STATE OF NEW YORK
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4422
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 8, 2023
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Introduced by Sen. FERNANDEZ -- 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 establishing the crime of
sexual harassment
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 Sexual harassment.
4 A person is guilty of sexual harassment when, with the purpose of
5 sexual arousal or gratification, and without consent, he or she slaps,
6 strikes, shoves or kicks another person, or otherwise subjects such
7 other person to physical contact, or attempts, or threatens to do the
8 same.
9 Sexual harassment is a class A misdemeanor.
10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
11 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.
LBD08764-01-3
