Bill Text: NY A04743 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Designates promoting prostitution in the first degree, compelling prostitution and sex trafficking as class B violent felonies; defines the class B felony of promoting prostitution in the first degree to be the advancing or profiting from the prostitution of a person under 16 years of age.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-21 - print number 4743a [A04743 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A04743-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4743--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 5, 2015
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. MOYA, FRIEND -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Codes -- recommitted to the Committee on Codes in accord-
          ance with Assembly Rule  3,  sec.  2  --  committee  discharged,  bill
          amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
          tee
        AN ACT to amend the penal law,  in  relation  to  designating  promoting
          prostitution  in  the  first  degree,  compelling prostitution and sex
          trafficking as class B violent felony offenses and the prostitution of
          minors
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision 1 of section 70.02 of the
     2  penal law, as amended by chapter 368 of the laws of 2015, is amended  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    (a)  Class  B  violent felony offenses: an attempt to commit the class
     5  A-I felonies of murder in  the  second  degree  as  defined  in  section
     6  125.25, kidnapping in the first degree as defined in section 135.25, and
     7  arson  in the first degree as defined in section 150.20; manslaughter in
     8  the first degree as defined in section 125.20,  aggravated  manslaughter
     9  in  the  first  degree  as  defined in section 125.22, rape in the first
    10  degree as defined in section 130.35, criminal sexual act  in  the  first
    11  degree  as  defined  in  section  130.50, aggravated sexual abuse in the
    12  first degree as defined in section  130.70,  course  of  sexual  conduct
    13  against  a  child  in  the  first  degree  as defined in section 130.75;
    14  assault in the first degree as defined in section 120.10, kidnapping  in
    15  the  second  degree  as defined in section 135.20, burglary in the first
    16  degree as defined in section 140.30,  arson  in  the  second  degree  as
    17  defined  in  section  150.15,  robbery in the first degree as defined in
    18  section 160.15, promoting prostitution in the first degree as defined in
    19  section 230.32, compelling prostitution as defined  in  section  230.33,
    20  sex  trafficking  as  defined  in [paragraphs (a) and (b) of subdivision

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