After many months of negotiation, "Stephanie's law" has passed both houses of the state legislature and been signed into law by the governor.

The new law establishes criminal penalties for those who would use mechanical, digital or electronic devices to take visual images of someone, without their knowledge. It also establishes criminal penalties for disseminating, publishing, or selling lascivious images of intimate body parts collected in this manner. Those caught using or installing a camera for sexual purposes, or in a bedroom, bathroom, or other specified rooms, would be subject to presumptive registration with the State's sex offender Registry.

Before "Stephanie's Law," those caught in the act of video voyeurism could only be charged with trespass, punishable by a small fine, possible probation and community service. Stephanie Fuller's landlord William Schultz, who secretly videotaped her through a tiny video camera hidden in the smoke detector above her bed, received a small fine, three years probation and community service, but nothing measurable to the invasion of privacy he inflicted. However, with the new law, crimes like this will be considered a felony, punishable with jail time.

"The people of New York have won an important victory," said Assemblyman James Conte, who was instrumental in getting the law passed. "Personal privacy and dignity have been, in part, restored. The new law recognizes surreptitious videotaping and photography as a felony and distinguishes the transgression on our rights to privacy as unacceptable behavior. Others who were instrumental in the bill's passage and who attended were Assembly Minority Leader Charles Nesbitt, Assemblyman Robert Oaks, Senator Carl Marcellino, Assemblyman Joseph Lentol, and Assemblyman Steven Labriola.

"It is through the diligent efforts of the people that join us here today that 'Stephanie's Law' has become a reality," Conte explained. "People like Stephanie Fuller, whom the bill was named after, Brenda Thurston, Suzanna Jarzynka, Katie-Lyn Estrella, Julie Miller, and Lisa Schreiner, all of whom shared their personal experiences despite the further encroachment on their privacy, are to be commended for what they have helped accomplish. It's their stories that expressed the immediate need and importance for this legislation."

The lawmaker also thanked John Walsh who attended and participated in the bill signing. John Walsh utilized his television show The John Walsh Show to raise the awareness of video voyeurism, expressing the need for legislation across the country to safeguard against "video rape", a term used to describe the privacy invasion crime by Stephanie Fuller.