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.
LBD01786-01-1