Bill Text: NY S04603 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to criminal liability for persons living with sexually transmitted infections who engage in sexual activity; repeals provisions relating to persons knowing themselves to be infected with venereal disease.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Engrossed) 2024-06-05 - referred to codes [S04603 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S04603-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4603--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 13, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  HOYLMAN-SIGAL, BRISPORT, JACKSON, RAMOS, SALAZAR,
          SEPULVEDA -- 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

        AN ACT to amend the  criminal  procedure  law  and  the  penal  law,  in
          relation to criminal liability for persons living with sexually trans-
          mitted infections who engage in sexual activity; and to repeal section
          2307  of  the public health law relating to persons knowing themselves
          to be infected with venereal disease

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

     1    Section 1. Section 2307 of the public health law is REPEALED.
     2    §  2. Subdivision 3 of section 160.50 of the criminal procedure law is
     3  amended by adding a new paragraph (m) to read as follows:
     4     (m) the conviction was for the violation of former  section  2307  of
     5  the public health law.
     6    §  3.  This  act  shall  take effect immediately and no prosecution or
     7  action shall be commenced or continued pursuant to section 2307  of  the
     8  public  health law as repealed pursuant to section one of this act on or
     9  after such date.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD06946-03-4