Bill Text: NY A07079 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Expands the definition of the offense of sexual conduct against a child in the third degree to include at least one act of specified types of sexual contact.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 15-0)

Status: (Passed) 2022-11-23 - signed chap.647 [A07079 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A07079-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         7079--C

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 21, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. BURDICK, THIELE, DICKENS, GUNTHER, FERNANDEZ,
          OTIS, CLARK, JACKSON, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, KELLES, EPSTEIN -- read once and
          referred to the Committee  on  Codes  --  committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee -- recommitted to the Committee on Codes in accordance with Assem-
          bly Rule 3, sec. 2 --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted  as  amended  and  recommitted  to  said  committee -- again
          reported from said committee with  amendments,  ordered  reprinted  as
          amended and recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to amend the penal law, in relation to sexual conduct against a
          child in the third degree

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  1  of  section  130.66  of the penal law, as
     2  amended by chapter 485 of the laws  of  2009,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    1.  A  person is guilty of aggravated sexual abuse in the third degree
     5  when he or she inserts a foreign object  or  a  finger  in  the  vagina,
     6  urethra, penis, rectum or anus of another person:
     7    (a) By forcible compulsion; or
     8    (b)  When  the other person is incapable of consent by reason of being
     9  physically helpless; [or]
    10    (c) When the other person is less than eleven years old[.]; or
    11    (d) When the other person is less than  thirteen  years  old  and  the
    12  actor is eighteen years of age or older.
    13    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    14  have become a law.


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