Bill Text: NY S01324 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes the crime of allurement of a minor through electronic means.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CODES [S01324 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S01324-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1324 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 14, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. FUNKE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime of allurement of a minor through electronic means The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding two new sections 263.17 2 and 263.18 to read as follows: 3 § 263.17 Allurement of a minor through electronic means in the second 4 degree. 5 Any individual who knowingly engages in sexual communication for the 6 purpose, in whole or substantial part, of his or her own sexual gratifi- 7 cation, including text messages or pictures, with an individual whom he 8 or she knows to be a minor, through any electronic means shall be guilty 9 of the crime of allurement of a minor through electronic means. The 10 crime of allurement of a minor through electronic means shall not apply 11 to communications sent from one minor to another, to communications sent 12 by a person age twenty-one or under to a person age seventeen or older, 13 nor to communications from a person age eighteen to a person age fifteen 14 or over. 15 Allurement of a minor through electronic means in the second degree is 16 a class A misdemeanor. 17 § 263.18 Allurement of a minor through electronic means in the first 18 degree. 19 A person is guilty of allurement of a minor through electronic means 20 in the first degree when he or she commits the crime of allurement of a 21 minor through electronic means in the second degree, and has previously 22 been convicted of such crime within the preceding ten years. 23 Allurement of a minor through electronic means in the first degree is 24 a class E felony. 25 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 26 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06928-02-9