Bill Text: NY A01140 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Adds the definition of consent to the terms of general use; defines it as a freely given, knowledgeable and informed agreement by a person with the capacity to reason.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-09 - referred to codes [A01140 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A01140-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1140

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 9, 2025
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SEAWRIGHT, STECK, JACKSON, McMAHON, BURDICK,
          WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the definition of consent

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

     1    Section  1.  Section 10.00 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 23 to read as follows:
     3    23. "Consent" means a freely given, knowledgeable and informed  agree-
     4  ment by a person with the capacity to reason.
     5    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     6  have become a law.







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