Bill Text: NY A01587 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Modifies the crime of criminal solicitation in the third degree.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-2)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to codes [A01587 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A01587-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1587

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 17, 2023
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BUTTENSCHON, JACOBSON, PHEFFER AMATO, SIMON,
          STERN, WALLACE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to  modifying  the  crime  of
          criminal solicitation in the third degree

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Section 100.08 of the penal law, as added by chapter 422 of
     2  the laws of 1978, is amended to read as follows:
     3  § 100.08 Criminal solicitation in the third degree.
     4    A person is guilty  of  criminal  solicitation  in  the  third  degree
     5  when[,]:
     6    1.  being  over  eighteen  years  of age, with the intent that another
     7  person under sixteen years of age engage in conduct that  would  consti-
     8  tute  a  felony,  he  or she solicits, requests, commands, importunes or
     9  otherwise attempts  to  cause  such  other  person  to  engage  in  such
    10  conduct[.]; or
    11    2.  being  over  eighteen  years  of age, with the intent that another
    12  person under eighteen years of age engage in conduct that would  consti-
    13  tute a crime under article two hundred sixty-five of this chapter, he or
    14  she  intentionally  provides a loaded firearm to such person in order to
    15  protect the actor from criminal prosecution.
    16    Criminal solicitation in the third degree is a class E felony.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    18  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05101-01-3