Bill Text: NY A01768 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to removing the ten year time period from the crime of persistent sexual abuse.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to codes [A01768 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A01768-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         1768
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                   January 11, 2011
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL  --  read once and referred to the
         Committee on Codes
       AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to removing  a  certain  time
         period for the crime of persistent sexual abuse
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Section 130.53 of the penal law, as amended by chapter  264
    2  of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
    3  S 130.53 Persistent sexual abuse.
    4    A  person  is guilty of persistent sexual abuse when he or she commits
    5  the crime of forcible touching, as defined in  section  130.52  of  this
    6  article,  sexual abuse in the third degree, as defined in section 130.55
    7  of this article, or sexual abuse in the second  degree,  as  defined  in
    8  section 130.60 of this article, and[, within the previous ten year peri-
    9  od,]  has  been convicted two or more times, in separate criminal trans-
   10  actions for which sentence was imposed on separate occasions, of  forci-
   11  ble touching, as defined in section 130.52 of this article, sexual abuse
   12  in the third degree as defined in section 130.55 of this article, sexual
   13  abuse  in  the second degree, as defined in section 130.60 of this arti-
   14  cle, or any offense defined in this article, of which the commission  or
   15  attempted commission thereof is a felony.
   16    Persistent sexual abuse is a class E felony.
   17    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
   18  ing the date on which this act shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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