Bill Text: NY A00255 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Provides immunity from prosecution for certain individuals engaged in prostitution who are victims of or witnesses to a crime and who report such crime or assist in the investigation or prosecution.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 18-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - ordered to third reading cal.15 [A00255 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A00255-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 255--A 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled) January 6, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GOTTFRIED, SEAWRIGHT, SAYEGH, BARRON, SIMON, STECK, QUART, PAULIN, GALLAGHER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to individuals engaged in prostitution who are victims of or witnesses to a crime 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 230.45 to 2 read as follows: 3 § 230.45 Immunity from prosecution. 4 This section applies where a person is the victim of or a witness to a 5 crime (including an individual who becomes aware that another person is 6 a victim of a crime), and has engaged or is alleged to have engaged in 7 an act prohibited under section 230.00, 230.03, or 230.40 of this chap- 8 ter at or in reasonable proximity to the time of the crime or under 9 circumstances reasonably related to the crime, and, in good faith, (a) 10 reports the crime to a criminal law enforcement agency, (b) seeks or 11 receives health care services as a result of the crime, or (c) assists 12 or attempts to assist in the investigation or prosecution of the crime. 13 No such victim or witness to the crime shall be charged or prosecuted 14 for the offense under section 230.00, 230.03, or 230.40 of this chapter. 15 As used in this section, "crime" shall include an act that reasonably 16 appears to be a crime, regardless of whether it results in a conviction 17 as a crime. 18 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 19 have become a law, and shall apply to any prosecution pending on or 20 after the time it shall take effect. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD00486-02-1