Bill Text: NY A00511 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to unconsented removal or tampering with a sexually protective device.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - referred to codes [A00511 Detail]
Download: New_York-2025-A00511-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 511 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 8, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, CRUZ, ZINERMAN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to unconsented removal or tampering with a sexually protective device The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 130.20 of the penal law is renum- 2 bered subdivision 5 and a new subdivision 4 is added to read as follows: 3 4. a. Such person engages in sexual intercourse, oral sexual conduct 4 or anal sexual conduct with another person that was mutually agreed upon 5 by the parties involved with the explicit understanding and knowledge 6 that a sexually protective device would be used but (i) intentionally 7 and without consent removes or tampers with such sexually protective 8 device during sexual intercourse, oral sexual conduct or anal sexual 9 conduct, in a manner likely to render such device ineffective for its 10 common purpose; (ii) intentionally and without consent uses a sexually 11 protective device during sexual intercourse, oral sexual conduct or anal 12 sexual conduct that such person knows has been tampered with in a manner 13 likely to render such device ineffective for its common purpose; or 14 (iii) intentionally misleads the other person into believing that a 15 sexually protective device was being used during sexual intercourse, 16 oral sexual conduct or anal sexual conduct, and such sexually protective 17 device was known by such other person to be either not used or inopera- 18 ble. 19 b. For the purposes of this subdivision, a "sexually protective 20 device" shall mean any one of the following intended to prevent pregnan- 21 cy or sexually transmitted infection: male or female condom, spermicide, 22 diaphragm, cervical cap, contraceptive sponge, dental dam, or another 23 physical device; or 24 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 25 ing the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02113-01-5
