Bill Text: NY A01068 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 1068

Introduced

Bill Title: Adds to the definition of a victim of a sexual offense by including a victim of unlawful dissemination or publication of an intimate image.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to codes [A01068 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01068-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1068

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 13, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. WALKER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to defining a victim of a
          sexual offense

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

     1    Section 1. Paragraph (i) of subdivision 1 of section 108 of the execu-
     2  tive law, as added by chapter 141 of the laws of  2019,  is  amended  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    (i)  "Victim of a sexual offense" means a victim of any act constitut-
     5  ing an offense as defined  under  article  one  hundred  thirty,  and/or
     6  sections  245.15, 255.25, 255.26, and 255.27 of the penal law, including
     7  threats or attempts to commit such offenses.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04634-01-3