Bill Text: NY S05949 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes the crime of unlawful electronic transmission of sexually explicit visual material; makes such crime a class A misdemeanor.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CODES [S05949 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S05949-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5949 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 16, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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 the creation of the crimi- nal offense of unlawful electronic transmission of sexually explicit visual material 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 a new section 250.70 to 2 read as follows: 3 § 250.70 Unlawful electronic transmission of sexually explicit visual 4 material. 5 A person is guilty of unlawful electronic transmission of sexually 6 explicit visual material if a person knowingly transmits by electronic 7 means visual material that depicts any person engaging in sexual conduct 8 or with a person's intimate parts exposed or depicts the covered geni- 9 tals of a male person that are in a discernibly turgid state and such 10 visual material is not sent at the request of or with the express 11 consent of the recipient. For purposes of this section the term "inti- 12 mate parts" means the naked genitals, pubic area, anus, or female post- 13 pubescent nipple of the person and the term "sexual conduct" shall have 14 the same meaning as defined in section 130.00 of this chapter. 15 Unlawful electronic transmission of sexually explicit visual material 16 is a class A misdemeanor. 17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 18 ing the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11821-01-9