Bill Text: NY S00112 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to prostitution offenses; creates the new crimes of unlawful prostitution and sexual exploitation of a child.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-20 - PRINT NUMBER 112A [S00112 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S00112-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 112--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE (Prefiled) January 7, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. DIAZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes -- recommitted to the Committee on Codes in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the penal law, the correction law, the criminal proce- dure law, the civil rights law, the family court act, the mental hygiene law, the multiple dwelling law, the public health law, the real property actions and proceedings law, the real property law and the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to prostitution offenses and creating the crime of sexual exploitation of a child The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 230.00 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 169 2 of the laws of 1969, is amended to read as follows: 3 § 230.00 [Prostitution] Criminal prostitution. 4 A person is guilty of criminal prostitution when, being seventeen 5 years old or more, such person engages or agrees or offers to engage in 6 sexual conduct with another person in return for a fee. 7 [Prostitution] Criminal prostitution is a class B [Misdemeanor] misde- 8 meanor. 9 § 2. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 230.00-a to read 10 as follows: 11 § 230.00-a Unlawful prostitution. 12 A person is guilty of unlawful prostitution when, being less than 13 seventeen years old, such person engages or agrees or offers to engage 14 in sexual conduct with another person in return for a fee. 15 Unlawful prostitution is a violation, provided, however, that any 16 person who has previously been convicted of a crime defined in this EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00900-02-6
