Bill Text: NY S00020 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the crime of patronizing a prostitute in a school zone and includes daycare facilities within the definition of a school zone.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-06-16 - referred to codes [S00020 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S00020-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          20
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
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       Introduced  by  Sen.  DIAZ  --  read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
       AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime  of
         patronizing a prostitute in a school zone and including daycare facil-
         ities within the definition of a school zone
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new  section  230.06-a
    2  to read as follows:
    3  S 230.06-A PATRONIZING A PROSTITUTE IN A SCHOOL ZONE.
    4    A  PERSON  IS GUILTY OF PATRONIZING A PROSTITUTE IN A SCHOOL ZONE WHEN
    5  SUCH PERSON PATRONIZES A PROSTITUTE IN  A  SCHOOL  ZONE  AS  DEFINED  IN
    6  SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION 230.03 OF THIS ARTICLE.
    7    PATRONIZING A PROSTITUTE IN A SCHOOL ZONE IS A CLASS D FELONY.
    8    S  2.  Subdivision  2  of section 230.03 of the penal law, as added by
    9  chapter 191 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
   10    2. For the purposes of this section and section 230.19 of  this  arti-
   11  cle, "school zone" means (a) in or on or within any building, structure,
   12  athletic  playing  field,  playground  or land contained within the real
   13  property boundary line of a public  or  private  elementary,  parochial,
   14  intermediate, junior high, vocational, or high school, OR DAYCARE FACIL-
   15  ITY,  or  (b) any public sidewalk, street, parking lot, park, playground
   16  or private land, located immediately adjacent to the  boundary  line  of
   17  such school OR FACILITY.
   18    S 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
   19  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.
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