Bill Text: NY A10969 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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 - Dead) 2020-09-09 - referred to codes [A10969 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10969-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10969

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    September 9, 2020
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of 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.
                                                                   LBD15216-01-0