Bill Text: NY A01349 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Expands felony sex offenses to include promoting prostitution in the second degree, promoting prostitution in the first degree, compelling prostitution, sex trafficking, and sex trafficking of a child.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-09 - referred to codes [A01349 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A01349-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          1349

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     January 9, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, DINOWITZ, SEAWRIGHT, BUTTENSCHON, COLTON,
          LEVENBERG,  MEEKS,  MORINELLO,  BLANKENBUSH,  DeSTEFANO,  FITZPATRICK,
          GANDOLFO, GRAY, MAHER, SLATER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to  making  certain  offenses
          related to prostitution and sex trafficking felony sex offenses

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1  of  section  70.80  of  the
     2  penal  law, as amended by chapter 368 of the laws of 2015, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    (a) For the purposes of this section, a "felony sex offense"  means  a
     5  conviction  of  any felony defined in article one hundred thirty of this
     6  chapter, including a sexually motivated felony, or patronizing a  person
     7  for  prostitution  in  the  first degree as defined in section 230.06 of
     8  this chapter, patronizing a person for prostitution in the second degree
     9  as defined in section 230.05 of this chapter, aggravated  patronizing  a
    10  minor  for prostitution in the third degree as defined in section 230.11
    11  of this chapter, aggravated patronizing a minor for prostitution in  the
    12  second  degree  as defined in section 230.12 of this chapter, aggravated
    13  patronizing a minor for prostitution in the first degree as  defined  in
    14  section  230.13  of  this  chapter, promoting prostitution in the second
    15  degree as defined in section 230.30 of this chapter, promoting prostitu-
    16  tion in the first degree as defined in section 230.32 of  this  chapter,
    17  compelling  prostitution  as  defined in section 230.33 of this chapter,
    18  sex trafficking as defined in section 230.34 of this chapter, sex  traf-
    19  ficking  of  a  child  as  defined  in section 230.34-a of this chapter,
    20  incest in the second degree as defined in section 255.26 of  this  chap-
    21  ter,  or incest in the first degree as defined in section 255.27 of this
    22  chapter, or a felony attempt or conspiracy to commit any of the above.
    23    § 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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