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NY S09465
Bill
Status
6/6/2022
Primary Sponsor
Jamaal Bailey
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AI Summary
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Establishes a task force on social media and violent extremism within the New York Department of Law to investigate and make recommendations regarding how social media companies may facilitate violence, hate crimes, domestic terrorism, and extremist radicalization.
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Grants the task force authority to receive complaints, investigate allegations, determine civil or criminal liability of social media companies, prepare public reports, and submit annual reports to the governor and legislature with recommended statutory changes.
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Empowers the task force to subpoena witnesses, administer oaths, request assistance from state agencies, and conduct hearings to examine social media platforms' role in facilitating violent acts.
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Amends the domestic terrorism task force requirements to include the attorney general as a recipient of preliminary and final reports.
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Expands civil liability for bias-related violence to include harassment and false police reports motivated by protected characteristics, adds civil penalties of up to $5,000 per violation, and includes those who aid or incite such conduct; effective 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
SIGNED CHAP.213
6/6/2022