Bill Text: NY A00027 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Amends the definition of forcible touching.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - referred to codes [A00027 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-A00027-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          27
                              2013-2014 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 9, 2013
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       Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Codes
       AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to forcible touching
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 130.52 of the penal law, as amended by chapter  264
    2  of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
    3  S 130.52 Forcible touching.
    4    A  person  is  guilty  of  forcible  touching  when such person inten-
    5  tionally, and for no legitimate purpose[,]:
    6    1. forcibly touches the sexual or  other  intimate  parts  of  another
    7  person  for  the purpose of degrading or abusing such person; or for the
    8  purpose of gratifying the actor's sexual desire; OR
    9    2. TOUCHES THE SEXUAL OR OTHER INTIMATE PARTS OF  ANOTHER  PERSON,  OR
   10  SUBJECTS ANOTHER PERSON TO SEXUAL CONTACT, FOR ANY SUCH PURPOSE, AND THE
   11  ACTOR  INTENTIONALLY  SELECTED FOR SUCH ACT OR ACTS A LOCATION THAT MADE
   12  IT DIFFICULT OR IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE VICTIM  TO  AVOID  SUCH  TOUCHING  OR
   13  SEXUAL CONTACT.
   14    For  the  purposes of this section, forcible touching includes squeez-
   15  ing, grabbing or pinching.
   16    Forcible touching is a class A misdemeanor.
   17    S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
   18  have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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