Bill Text: NY A04057 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the class E felony offense of forcible touching against a child who is under 13 years old.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-4)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to codes [A04057 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A04057-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4057
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 1, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SIMOTAS, THIELE, JAFFEE, GUNTHER, BRAUNSTEIN,
          MONTESANO, CROUCH, MOYA -- Multi-Sponsored by  --  M.  of  A.  ABBATE,
          JOHNS,  MALLIOTAKIS,  McLAUGHLIN, SALADINO, SIMANOWITZ, TITONE -- read
          once and referred to the Committee on Codes
        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing  the  offense
          of forcible touching against a child
          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 130.51  to
     2  read as follows:
     3  § 130.51 Forcible touching against a child.
     4    A  person  is  guilty  of  forcible touching against a child when such
     5  person intentionally and for no legitimate purpose, forcibly touches:
     6    1. the sexual or other intimate parts of a child for  the  purpose  of
     7  degrading  or  abusing  such child; or for the purpose of gratifying the
     8  actor's sexual desire, and the victim is less than thirteen  years  old;
     9  or
    10    2. any part of a child for the purpose of gratifying the actor's sexu-
    11  al desire, and the victim is less than thirteen years old.
    12    For  the  purposes of this section, forcible touching includes, but is
    13  not limited to squeezing, grabbing or pinching.
    14    Forcible touching against a child is a class E felony.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    16  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.
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