S 662 New York Senate · 2025 Regular Session

Relates to the assault on sports officials and harassment of a sports official and the provision of information to the spectators of such sporting events

Summary

Establishes the crime of assault on sports officials and harassment of a sports official; makes harassment of a sports official a violation; requires the state education department to establish an information campaign to be distributed to all youth and school sports programs requiring such programs to disseminate information to parents and other spectators of such programs on the protections afforded sports officials.

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Jan 8, 2025 Last action Mar 10, 2026

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What changed between versions

S662 → S662A · 3 edits

MINOR

The bill was amended to change the classification of the offense from a misdemeanor to a violation and to adjust the bill number and committee status. The substantive content regarding the offense itself and the education department's information campaign requirements remains unchanged.

Scope change

The bill's scope and applicability remain unchanged; only the classification of the offense and administrative details were modified.

ENFORCEMENT

Changed the offense classification from a class B misdemeanor to a violation, which is a less serious criminal offense with different penalties.

TECHNICAL

Updated the bill number from S 662 to S 662--A to reflect that the bill was amended and reprinted.

Added committee status information indicating the bill was discharged from committee, amended, and recommitted.

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Committee

Amendments

Mar 10, 2026

Upper · Passed

PRINT NUMBER 662A

upper

Mar 10, 2026

Upper · Passed

AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CODES

upper

Jan 7, 2026

Committee

REFERRED TO CODES

upper

Jan 8, 2025

Committee

REFERRED TO CODES

upper

1 primary · 6 co-sponsors