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NY A10501
Bill
Status
5/30/2022
Primary Sponsor
Demond Meeks
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AI Summary
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Establishes a task force on social media and violent extremism within the Department of Law to investigate social media companies' roles in promoting, facilitating, or providing platforms for violence, hate crimes, and domestic terrorism.
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Grants the task force power to subpoena witnesses, receive cooperation from state agencies, conduct hearings, and submit annual reports to the governor and legislature with recommendations for changes to state law.
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Requires the domestic terrorism task force to submit preliminary reports to the attorney general (in addition to the governor and legislature) and examine how to prevent mass shootings by domestic terrorists.
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Expands civil liability under bias-related violence laws to include harassment conduct and false police summons based on protected characteristics, and allows aiding or inciting such conduct to be subject to civil action.
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Adds a civil penalty of up to $5,000 per violation for bias-related violence or intimidation; takes effect January 1, 2023.
Legislative Description
Establishes the task force on social media and violent extremism; requires the domestic terrorism task force report relating to enacting the "Josef Neumann Hate Crimes Domestic Terrorism Act" to be delivered to the attorney general; increases penalties of certain violations for bias-related violence and intimidation; includes a person who subjects a person to harassment or summons police officer or peace officer without reason to suspect a violation of the penal law, any other criminal conduct, or an imminent threat to a person or property, or who aids or incites any of those activities.
Last Action
substituted by s9465
6/2/2022