Bill Text: NY A04592 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Enacts the "protect our children act"; establishes certain offenses relating to murder of and violence against a child, obstructing the location of a missing child and concealment of a death.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-03 - enacting clause stricken [A04592 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A04592-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4592--B 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 3, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. CLARK -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on Codes in accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the penal law, the criminal procedure law, the vehicle and traffic law, the estates, powers and trusts law and the social services law, in relation to establishing the offenses of aggravated murder of a child, aggravated abuse of a child in the third degree, aggravated abuse of a child in the second degree, aggravated abuse of a child in the first degree, aggravated manslaughter of a child, aggravated endangering the welfare of a child, aggravated murder of a child, and obstructing the location of a missing child; and to repeal subdivision 5 of section 125.25 of the penal law relating to the murder of a person under 14 years of age while in the course of committing certain sex offenses The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as 2 the "protect our children act". 3 § 2. Section 10.00 of the penal law is amended by adding two new 4 subdivisions 22 and 23 to read as follows: 5 22. "Person in a position of trust" means any person who is charged 6 with any duty or responsibility for the health, education, welfare, 7 supervision or care of another person, either independently or through 8 another person, no matter how brief. 9 23. "Child abuse offense" means: 10 (a) patronizing a prostitute in the second degree as defined in 11 section 230.05; patronizing a prostitute in the first degree as defined 12 in section 230.06; promoting prostitution in the second degree as EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD02814-07-6
