Bill Text: NY A01467 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to sexual abuse in the first degree where a person is incapable of consent while a passenger on public transportation and the contact was intentional and with the sole purpose of sexual gratification; relates to public lewdness while a passenger on public transportation.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-28 - print number 1467a [A01467 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A01467-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1467--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 12, 2015
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CUSICK, BRINDISI, GOLDFEDER -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Codes -- recommitted to the Committee  on
          Codes  in  accordance  with  Assembly  Rule  3,  sec.  2  -- committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to sexual abuse in the  first
          degree  where  a  person  is incapable of consent while a passenger on
          public transportation; in relation to public lewdness while a  passen-
          ger on public transportation
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1.  Section 130.65 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 2-a to read as follows:
     3    2-a. Intentionally, and with the sole purpose of sexual gratification,
     4  and without the consent of the other person while a passenger on  public
     5  transportation; or
     6    §  2.  Subdivision  2  of section 245.03 of the penal law, as added by
     7  chapter 186 of the laws of 2014, is amended and a new subdivision  3  is
     8  added to read as follows:
     9    2.  he  or  she  commits  the  crime of public lewdness, as defined in
    10  section 245.00 of this article, and within the preceding year  has  been
    11  convicted  of  an  offense  defined  in  such  section  245.00  or  this
    12  section[.]; or
    13    3. he or she commits the crime  of  public  lewdness,  as  defined  in
    14  section  245.00 of this article, while a passenger on public transporta-
    15  tion.
    16    § 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    17  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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