Bill Text: NY A03713 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
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
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3713 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 30, 2019 ___________ 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