Bill Text: NY A04081 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 4081 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Changes the designation of incest in the third degree from a class E to a class B felony, and incest in the second degree from a class D to a class B felony.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to codes [A04081 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A04081-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          4081

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 1, 2021
                                       ___________

        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    §  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    § 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.
                                                                   LBD05731-01-1