Bill Text: NY S05796 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 5796

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to the definition of a sex offense; provides that if luring a child or the attempt thereto requires an actor to register as a sex offender, then the act is determined to be a sex offense.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-03-03 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [S05796 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5796

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      March 3, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sens.  SEPULVEDA,  COMRIE,  GOUNARDES  -- read twice and
          ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee  on
          Crime Victims, Crime and Correction

        AN  ACT  to amend the correction law, in relation to the definition of a
          sex offense

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

     1    Section  1.  Subparagraph  (i)  of  paragraph  (a) of subdivision 2 of
     2  section 168-a of the correction law, as amended by  chapter  23  of  the
     3  laws of 2024, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (i)  a  conviction  of or a conviction for an attempt to commit any of
     5  the provisions of sections 120.70, provided the underlying  offense  the
     6  actor  intended  to commit constitutes an offense for which registration
     7  as a sex offender is required pursuant to this article, 130.20,  130.25,
     8  130.30,  former  section 130.40, former section 130.45, sections 130.60,
     9  230.34, 230.34-a, 250.50, 255.25,  255.26  and  255.27  or  article  two
    10  hundred  sixty-three of the penal law, or section 135.05, 135.10, 135.20
    11  or 135.25 of such law relating  to  kidnapping  offenses,  provided  the
    12  victim  of  such  kidnapping  or  related offense is less than seventeen
    13  years old and the offender is not the parent of the victim,  or  section
    14  230.04, where the person patronized is in fact less than seventeen years
    15  of  age,  230.05,  230.06,  230.11,  230.12,  230.13, subdivision two of
    16  section 230.30, section 230.32, 230.33, or 230.34 of the penal  law,  or
    17  section  230.25 of the penal law where the person prostituted is in fact
    18  less than seventeen years old, or
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.


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