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New York · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

A 679: Establishes the crime of coercive control

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 679 is a bill introduced in the New York House on January 8, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Establishes the crime of coercive control. Primary sponsor: Andrew Hevesi (Democratic). It lists 9 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (January 7, 2026): REFERRED TO CODES.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

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

Relates to establishing the crime of coercive control; provides that a person is guilty of coercive control when such person engages in a course of conduct against a member of such person's same family or household, without the victim's consent, which results in limiting or restricting, in full or in part, the victim's behavior, movement, associations or access to or use of such victim's own finances or financial information; provides that coercive control is a class E felony.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 7 · Democratic/Working Families 2 · Republican/Conservative 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Andrew HevesiPrimary sponsorDemocraticHouse28
Alex BoresCo-sponsorDemocratic/Working FamiliesHouse73
Catalina CruzCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse39
Anna KellesCo-sponsorDemocratic/Working FamiliesHouse125
Misha NovakhovCo-sponsorRepublican/ConservativeHouse45
Nily RozicCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse25
Jo Anne SimonCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse52
Tony SimoneCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse75
Phil SteckCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse110
Al StirpeCo-sponsorDemocraticHouse127

“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