A 413: Expands unlawful surveillance in the first degree to include instances where the surveillance is of a person who has an active order of protection against them.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 413 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. VANEL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to unlawful surveillance 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 250.50 of the penal law, as added by chapter 69 of 2 the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 250.50 Unlawful surveillance in the first degree. 4 A person is guilty of unlawful surveillance in the first degree when 5 [he or she] such person: 6 1. commits the crime of unlawful surveillance in the second degree and 7 has been previously convicted within the past ten years of unlawful 8 surveillance in the first or second degree; or 9 2. commits the crime of unlawful surveillance in the second degree 10 against a person who has an active order of protection against them; or 11 3. commits the crime of unlawful surveillance in the second degree 12 against a person with the intent to benefit a person who has an active 13 order of protection against the person surveilled. 14 Unlawful surveillance in the first degree is a class D felony. 15 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 16 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01931-01-5