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New York · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

A 196: Enacts the "dialogue and decorum act" which establishes the crime of disruption or disturbance of a lawful assembly

In committee Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

A 196 is a bill introduced in the New York House on January 8, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Enacts the "dialogue and decorum act" which establishes the crime of disruption or disturbance of a lawful assembly. Primary sponsor: Sam Berger (Democratic). It lists 22 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (January 7, 2026): REFERRED TO CODES.

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Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Enacts the "dialogue and decorum act" which establishes the crime of disruption or disturbance of a lawful assembly; makes such crime an unclassified misdemeanor.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 19 · Democratic/Working Families 1 · Republican/Conservative 1 · Republican/Conservative/Independence 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Sam BergerPrimary sponsorDemocraticHouse27
Stacey Pheffer AmatoCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse23
Joe AngelinoCo-sponsorRepublican/Conservative/IndependenceHouse121
Michael BenedettoCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse82
Jake BlumencranzCo-sponsorRepublican/ConservativeHouse15
Ed BraunsteinCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse26
Marianne ButtenschonCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse119
William ColtonCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse47
Brian CunninghamCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse43
Jeffrey DinowitzCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse81
Chris EachusCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse99
Simcha EichensteinCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse48
Charles FallCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse61
Rodneyse Bichotte HermelynCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse42
Andrew HevesiCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse28
Billy JonesCo-sponsorNot applicable (committee)——
Amy PaulinCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse88
Jon RiveraCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse149
Angelo SantabarbaraCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse111
MaryJane ShimskyCo-sponsorDemocratic/Working FamiliesHouse92
Steve SternCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse10
Al StirpeCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse127
Jaime WilliamsCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse59

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. REFERRED TO CODES
  2. REFERRED TO CODES

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source