Bill Text: NY A00709 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Changes the designation of incest from a class E to a class B felony.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to codes [A00709 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A00709-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          709
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 5, 2011
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       Introduced by M. of A. COLTON -- read once and referred to the Committee
         on Codes
       AN  ACT  to  amend the penal law, in relation to making incest a class B
         felony
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1. The second undesignated paragraph of section 255.25 of the
    2  penal law, as amended by chapter 320 of the laws of 2006, is amended  to
    3  read as follows:
    4    Incest in the third degree is a class [E] B felony.
    5    S  2. The second undesignated paragraph of section 255.26 of the penal
    6  law, as added by chapter 320 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read  as
    7  follows:
    8    Incest in the second degree is a class [D] B felony.
    9    S 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
   10  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.
                                                                  LBD01874-01-1