Bill Text: NY A00095 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Includes within the class B felony of promoting prostitution in the first degree, the knowing advancement or profiting from the prostitution of a child less than 17 years old by such child's parent, guardian or other person charged with the custody and care of the child.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 46-21)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-05-18 - print number 95b [A00095 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A00095-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          95--B
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 7, 2015
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        Introduced  by  M.  of A. SIMANOWITZ, BRINDISI, JAFFEE, LAVINE, GUNTHER,
          BENEDETTO, COLTON,  ARROYO,  McDONALD,  MILLER,  BRAUNSTEIN,  RUSSELL,
          GALEF,  WEPRIN,  HOOPER,  HEVESI, QUART, ORTIZ, SKOUFIS, MOSLEY, RAIA,
          DUPREY, LUPINACCI, CERETTO, TITONE, KEARNS, FRIEND, PICHARDO,  GJONAJ,
          BLAKE,  COOK,  SIMON, CORWIN, McDONOUGH, ENGLEBRIGHT, STECK, DiPIETRO,
          CUSICK, MURRAY, MORELLE, RYAN, SIMOTAS, RODRIGUEZ, GOLDFEDER,  CRESPO,
          MOYA,  DILAN, OTIS, JOYNER, WOERNER, THIELE, PAULIN -- Multi-Sponsored
          by -- M. of A.   ABBATE, BARCLAY, CROUCH,  CURRAN,  FINCH,  GARBARINO,
          GRAF,  HIKIND,  LOPEZ,  MAGEE, McKEVITT, McLAUGHLIN, MONTESANO, PERRY,
          SALADINO, TENNEY -- read once and referred to the Committee  on  Codes
          --  recommitted  to the Committee on Codes in accordance with Assembly
          Rule  3,  sec.  2  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted  as  amended  and  recommitted  to  said  committee -- again
          reported from said committee with  amendments,  ordered  reprinted  as
          amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  penal  law, in relation to including within the
          offense of promoting prostitution in the first degree,  the  prostitu-
          tion  of a child by a parent, guardian or person charged with the care
          and custody of the child
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Section 230.32 of the penal law, as added by chapter 627 of
     2  the  laws  of  1978,  the  opening paragraph and subdivisions 1 and 2 as
     3  amended by chapter 368 of the laws  of  2015,  is  amended  to  read  as
     4  follows:
     5  § 230.32 Promoting prostitution in the first degree.
     6    A  person is guilty of promoting prostitution in the first degree when
     7  he or she:
     8    1. knowingly advances or profits from prostitution of  a  person  less
     9  than thirteen years old; or
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    2. being twenty-one years old or more, he or she knowingly advances or
     2  profits from prostitution of a person less than fifteen years old[.]; or
     3    3. being the parent, guardian or other person legally charged with the
     4  care  and  custody  of  a child less than seventeen years old, he or she
     5  knowingly advances or profits from prostitution of such child.
     6    Promoting prostitution in the first degree is a class B felony.
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
     8  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.