Bill Text: NY A01501 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Assembly Bill 1501 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Includes individuals with a mental disease or defect as a victim under sexual abuse in the first degree.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to codes [A01501 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A01501-Amended.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                        1501--A
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by M. of A. GUNTHER, ZEBROWSKI, MONTESANO -- Multi-Sponsored
         by -- M. of A.  BOYLAND -- read once and referred to the Committee  on
         Codes  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended, ordered reprinted as
         amended and recommitted to said committee
       AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to including individuals with
         a mental defect as a victim under sexual abuse in the first degree
         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  130.65  of the penal law, as
    2  amended by chapter 26 of the laws of 2011, is amended and a new subdivi-
    3  sion 5 is added to read as follows:
    4    4. When the other person is less than thirteen years old and the actor
    5  is twenty-one years old or older[.]; OR
    6    5. WHEN THE OTHER PERSON HAS A MENTAL DISEASE OR DEFECT.
    7    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    8  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.
                                                                  LBD02375-03-3