Bill Text: NY S01109 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 1109 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Includes within the class B felony of promoting prostitution in the first degree, the knowing advancement or profiting from the prostitution of a child less than 17 years old by such child's parent, guardian or other person charged with the custody and care of the child.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-14 - referred to codes [S01109 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S01109-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1109--B
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 8, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes  --  recommitted  to
          the  Committee  on  Codes  in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted  to  said committee -- committee discharged, bill amended,
          ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the penal law,  in  relation  to  including  within  the
          offense  of  promoting prostitution in the first degree, the prostitu-
          tion of a child by a parent, guardian or person charged with the  care
          and custody of the child
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 230.32 of the penal law, as added by chapter 627 of
     2  the laws of 1978, the opening paragraph and  subdivisions  1  and  2  as
     3  amended  by  chapter  368  of  the  laws  of 2015, is amended to read as
     4  follows:
     5  § 230.32 Promoting prostitution in the first degree.
     6    A person is guilty of promoting prostitution in the first degree  when
     7  he or she:
     8    1.  knowingly  advances  or profits from prostitution of a person less
     9  than thirteen years old; or
    10    2. being twenty-one years old or more, he or she knowingly advances or
    11  profits from prostitution of a person less than fifteen years old[.]; or
    12    3. being the parent, guardian or other person legally charged with the
    13  care and custody of a child less than seventeen years  old,  he  or  she
    14  knowingly advances or profits from prostitution of such child.
    15    Promoting prostitution in the first degree is a class B felony.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    17  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.
                                                                   LBD00210-06-6