Bill Text: NY A00118 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Specifies that a person convicted of prostitution, or a person whose participation in the offense is determined by a court to be a result of having been a victim of sex trafficking is excluded from the definition of designated offender.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-12-22 - signed chap.715 [A00118 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A00118-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         118--B
                                                                Cal. No. 190

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 6, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. PAULIN, GOTTFRIED, PICHARDO, OTIS -- read once
          and referred to the Committee on Codes -- committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee -- reported from committee, advanced to a third  reading,  amended
          and ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third read-
          ing

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  executive law, in relation to the definition of
          designated offender

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  7  of  section  995 of the executive law, as
     2  amended by chapter 92 of the  laws  of  2021,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    7.  "Designated  offender"  means  a  person  convicted  of any felony
     5  defined in any chapter of the laws  of  the  state  or  any  misdemeanor
     6  defined  in the penal law except: (a) a person convicted of prostitution
     7  under section 230.00 of the penal law, or (b)  a  person  whose  partic-
     8  ipation in the offense is determined by a court to have been a result of
     9  having  been  a  victim  of  sex trafficking under section 230.34 of the
    10  penal law, sex trafficking of a child  under  section  230.34-a  of  the
    11  penal  law,  or  trafficking  in  persons  under the trafficking victims
    12  protection act (United States Code, Title 22, Chapter 78).
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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