Bill Text: NY A03713 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Includes individuals with a mental disease or defect as a victim under sexual abuse in the first degree.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to codes [A03713 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A03713-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3713
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 30, 2019
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. GUNTHER, ZEBROWSKI, OTIS, MONTESANO -- Multi-
          Sponsored by -- M.  of A. CROUCH, McDONOUGH, RIVERA -- read  once  and
          referred to the Committee on Codes
        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to including individuals with
          a mental defect as a victim under sexual abuse in the first degree
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 4 of  section  130.65  of  the  penal  law,  as
     2  amended by chapter 26 of the laws of 2011, is amended and a new subdivi-
     3  sion 5 is added to read as follows:
     4    4. When the other person is less than thirteen years old and the actor
     5  is twenty-one years old or older[.]; or
     6    5. When the other person has a mental disease or defect.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
     8  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.
                                                                   LBD01105-01-9