Upgrades cyber-harassment of public servant or family member to third degree crime; requires Attorney General to establish cyber-harassment prevention initiatives; appropriates funds.*

The bill no longer creates a new Office of Cyber-Harassment Support as a standalone entity with a Director. Instead, the Attorney General is directly responsible for conducting or effectuating the listed tasks through the existing Division of Violence Intervention and Victim Assistance.

The nine specific activities (engaging law enforcement, establishing reporting systems, implementing educational programs, collaborating with social media platforms, providing victim support, coordinating cyber ethics classes in schools, establishing specialized law enforcement units, and enhancing training) are now framed as minimum tasks the Attorney General must conduct or effectuate, rather than responsibilities of a new office.

Grant authority to apply for and accept federal or private grants is now vested in the Attorney General directly rather than in the Director of the Office of Cyber-Harassment Support.

Additional co-sponsors were added: Assemblyman Gabriel Rodriguez, Assemblywoman Ellen J. Park, Assemblywoman Rosaura Bagolie, Senators Moriarty and McKnight, Assemblywomen Murphy and Speight, and Assemblyman Stanley.

The full explanatory statement section at the end of the bill was removed in the reprint version.