Bill Text: NY A08203 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Expands felony sex offenses to include promoting prostitution in the second degree, promoting prostitution in the first degree, compelling prostitution, sex trafficking, and sex trafficking of a child.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to codes [A08203 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A08203-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8203

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    October 27, 2023
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        Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, DINOWITZ, SEAWRIGHT, BUTTENSCHON, COLTON,
          FAHY,  LEVENBERG,  MEEKS,  MORINELLO,  BLANKENBUSH, DeSTEFANO, FITZPA-
          TRICK, GANDOLFO, GRAY, MAHER -- read once and referred to the  Commit-
          tee on Codes

        AN  ACT  to  amend the penal law, in relation to making certain offenses
          related to prostitution and sex trafficking felony sex offenses

          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 70.80 of the
     2  penal law, as amended by chapter 368 of the laws of 2015, is amended  to
     3  read as follows:
     4    (a)  For  the purposes of this section, a "felony sex offense" means a
     5  conviction of any felony defined in article one hundred thirty  of  this
     6  chapter,  including a sexually motivated felony, or patronizing a person
     7  for prostitution in the first degree as defined  in  section  230.06  of
     8  this chapter, patronizing a person for prostitution in the second degree
     9  as  defined  in section 230.05 of this chapter, aggravated patronizing a
    10  minor for prostitution in the third degree as defined in section  230.11
    11  of  this chapter, aggravated patronizing a minor for prostitution in the
    12  second degree as defined in section 230.12 of this  chapter,  aggravated
    13  patronizing  a  minor for prostitution in the first degree as defined in
    14  section 230.13 of this chapter, promoting  prostitution  in  the  second
    15  degree as defined in section 230.30 of this chapter, promoting prostitu-
    16  tion  in  the first degree as defined in section 230.32 of this chapter,
    17  compelling prostitution as defined in section 230.33  of  this  chapter,
    18  sex  trafficking as defined in section 230.34 of this chapter, sex traf-
    19  ficking of a child as defined  in  section  230.34-a  of  this  chapter,
    20  incest  in  the second degree as defined in section 255.26 of this chap-
    21  ter, or incest in the first degree as defined in section 255.27 of  this
    22  chapter, or a felony attempt or conspiracy to commit any of the above.
    23    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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