Vote: Floor vote
NY SenateMar 30, 2026Result: passed
(55) (1) (0) (7)
Sponsor · State Senator, District 37 · Democratic/Working Families
Senate bill · S524 (2025-26)
Relates to establishing the crime of voyeurism
Latest action May 11, 2026
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.
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Where it stands
Passed one of the two chambers; it still needs the other.
- Introduced
- In committee
- Up for a vote
- Passed one chamber
- Passed
- Enacted
New York State Senate
Same as A11339, the matching bill in the Assembly.
Amends the Penal Law.
Committee
Codes · New York State Assembly
Also referred to Codes · New York State Senate.
Purpose, from the sponsor's memo
The purpose of this legislation is to create the crime of voyeurism. The similar crime of unlawful surveillance currently in effect in New York only applies to cases in which an imaging device, capable of recording, is used, thus permitting those that are not using this type of imaging device to escape prosecution if they.
Filed with the bill. Read it on nysenate.gov (opens in a new tab)
Recorded votes
Vote: Floor vote
NY SenateFeb 9, 2026Result: passed
(59) (1) (0) (3)Vote: Committee vote · Codes
Senate CodesJan 28, 2026Result: passed
(13) (0) (0) (0)Vote: Floor vote
NY SenateFeb 26, 2025Result: passed
(60) (1) (0) (2)Vote: Committee vote · Codes
Senate CodesJan 27, 2025Result: passed
(12) (0) (0) (1)
Cosponsors
The sponsor's argument
Why Shelley Mayer says this is needed
New York is among the minority of states that do not impose criminal punishment for voyeuristic behavior. While the crime of unlawful surveillance - which involves using an imaging device that is capable of recording - has already been established in the penal law, those that only view others can still cause substantial harm to their victims by viewing them with the naked eye or with binoculars or a telescope, when that person is in intimate circumstances and has the expectation of privacy. The degradation, embarrassment, and fear resulting from such improper behavior should be properly punished in New York, and this bill will accomplish that end in a measured and appropriate manner.
This is the sponsor's own case for the bill, quoted from their memorandum. It is not Agora's description of what the bill does.
Full history
- May 11, 2026
Referred to committee
REFERRED TO CODES
NY Assembly
- Mar 30, 2026
Referred to committee
REFERRED TO CODES
NY Assembly
- Mar 30, 2026
Passed a chamber
REPASSED SENATE
NY Senate
- Mar 30, 2026
Returned to Assembly
RETURNED TO ASSEMBLY
NY Senate
- Mar 12, 2026
Amended
AMENDED ON THIRD READING 524A
NY Senate
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- Mar 12, 2026
Recalled From Assembly
RECALLED FROM ASSEMBLY
NY Senate
- Mar 12, 2026
Returned to Senate
RETURNED TO SENATE
NY Assembly
- Feb 9, 2026
Sent to the executive
DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
NY Senate
- Feb 9, 2026
Passed a chamber
PASSED SENATE
NY Senate
- Feb 9, 2026
Referred to committee
REFERRED TO CODES
NY Assembly
- Feb 3, 2026
Advanced to Third Reading
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NY Senate
- Jan 29, 2026
2ND Report CAL.
2ND REPORT CAL.
NY Senate
- Jan 28, 2026
1ST Report CAL.201
1ST REPORT CAL.201
NY Senate
- Jan 7, 2026
Died in Assembly
DIED IN ASSEMBLY
NY Assembly
- Jan 7, 2026
Referred to committee
REFERRED TO CODES
NY Senate
- Feb 26, 2025
Sent to the executive
DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
NY Senate
- Feb 26, 2025
Passed a chamber
PASSED SENATE
NY Senate
- Feb 26, 2025
Referred to committee
REFERRED TO CODES
NY Assembly
- Feb 3, 2025
Advanced to Third Reading
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NY Senate
- Jan 28, 2025
2ND Report CAL.
2ND REPORT CAL.
NY Senate
- Jan 27, 2025
1ST Report CAL.176
1ST REPORT CAL.176
NY Senate
- Jan 8, 2025
Referred to committee
REFERRED TO CODES
NY Senate
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