Bill Text: NY S00202 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases the penalty of sex trafficking and sex trafficking of a child from a class B felony to a class A-II felony.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-01-08 - REFERRED TO CODES [S00202 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-S00202-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           202

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2025
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        Introduced  by Sen. MARTINEZ -- 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 increasing  the  penalties
          for sex trafficking

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

     1    Section 1. The closing paragraph of section 230.34 of the  penal  law,
     2  as  added  by  chapter  74  of  the  laws of 2007, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    Sex trafficking is a [class B] class A-II felony.
     5    § 2. The closing paragraph of section 230.34-a of the penal law,    as
     6  added by chapter 189 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
     7    Sex trafficking of a child is a [class B] class A-II felony.
     8    § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
     9  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.
                                                                   LBD00873-01-5