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S 524 NY
Passed Legislature

Relates to establishing the crime of voyeurism

NY · session 2025-2026 · Senate · bill

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Introduced Jan 8, 2025

Latest action (Mar 30, 2026) REFERRED TO CODES

Summary

Establishes the crime of voyeurism in the first and second degree which is defined as when someone for their own amusement, entertainment, profit, sexual arousal or sexual gratification trespasses or uses an instrument to observe for the purpose of viewing a person dressing or undressing or the sexual or other intimate parts of such person at a place and time when such person has a reasonable expectation of privacy, without such person's knowledge or consent.

Sponsor (1)

6 coauthors / cosponsors

Action history (23)

  1. Jan 8, 2025 REFERRED TO CODES · upper
  2. Jan 27, 2025 1ST REPORT CAL.176 · upper
  3. Jan 28, 2025 2ND REPORT CAL. · upper
  4. Feb 3, 2025 ADVANCED TO THIRD READING · upper
  5. Feb 26, 2025 PASSED SENATE · upper
  6. Feb 26, 2025 DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY · upper
  7. Feb 26, 2025 REFERRED TO CODES · lower
  8. Jan 7, 2026 DIED IN ASSEMBLY · lower
  9. Jan 7, 2026 RETURNED TO SENATE · lower
  10. Jan 7, 2026 REFERRED TO CODES · upper
  11. Jan 28, 2026 1ST REPORT CAL.201 · upper
  12. Jan 29, 2026 2ND REPORT CAL. · upper
  13. Feb 3, 2026 ADVANCED TO THIRD READING · upper
  14. Feb 9, 2026 PASSED SENATE · upper
  15. Feb 9, 2026 DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY · upper
  16. Feb 9, 2026 REFERRED TO CODES · lower
  17. Mar 12, 2026 RECALLED FROM ASSEMBLY · upper
  18. Mar 12, 2026 RETURNED TO SENATE · lower
  19. Mar 12, 2026 VOTE RECONSIDERED - RESTORED TO THIRD READING · upper
  20. Mar 12, 2026 AMENDED ON THIRD READING 524A · upper
  21. Mar 30, 2026 REPASSED SENATE · upper
  22. Mar 30, 2026 RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY · upper
  23. Mar 30, 2026 REFERRED TO CODES · lower

Text versions (3)

The published texts of this bill as it moves through the legislature. Each links to the official document on the state legislature site. Data from OpenStates.

  • S524 · HTML
  • S524 · PDF
  • S524A · PDF

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