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
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