Bill Text: NY A04592 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Enacts the "protect our children act"; establishes certain offenses relating to murder of and violence against a child, obstructing the location of a missing child and concealment of a death.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-03 - enacting clause stricken [A04592 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A04592-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4592--B
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 3, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. CLARK -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered  reprinted  as
          amended  and  recommitted  to  said  committee  --  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, the criminal procedure law,  the  vehicle
          and  traffic  law,  the  estates, powers and trusts law and the social
          services law, in relation to establishing the offenses  of  aggravated
          murder  of  a  child, aggravated abuse of a child in the third degree,
          aggravated abuse of a child in the second degree, aggravated abuse  of
          a  child  in  the  first  degree,  aggravated manslaughter of a child,
          aggravated endangering the welfare of a child, aggravated murder of  a
          child,  and obstructing the location of a missing child; and to repeal
          subdivision 5 of section 125.25 of  the  penal  law  relating  to  the
          murder  of  a  person  under  14  years  of age while in the course of
          committing certain sex offenses
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
     2  the "protect our children act".
     3    § 2. Section 10.00 of the penal law  is  amended  by  adding  two  new
     4  subdivisions 22 and 23 to read as follows:
     5    22.  "Person  in  a position of trust" means any person who is charged
     6  with any duty or responsibility  for  the  health,  education,  welfare,
     7  supervision  or  care of another person, either independently or through
     8  another person, no matter how brief.
     9    23. "Child abuse offense" means:
    10    (a) patronizing a prostitute  in  the  second  degree  as  defined  in
    11  section  230.05; patronizing a prostitute in the first degree as defined
    12  in section 230.06;  promoting  prostitution  in  the  second  degree  as
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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