Bill Text: NY A05722 | 2025-2026 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Expands the definition of a sex offense to include sexually motivated felonies.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2025-02-20 - referred to correction [A05722 Detail]

Download: New_York-2025-A05722-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          5722

                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    February 20, 2025
                                       ___________

        Introduced by M. of A. GIGLIO -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Correction

        AN  ACT  to amend the correction law, in relation to the definition of a
          sex offense

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Subparagraph  (i)  of  paragraph  (a) of subdivision 2 of
     2  section 168-a of the correction law, as amended by  chapter  23  of  the
     3  laws of 2024, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (i)  a  conviction  of or a conviction for an attempt to commit any of
     5  the provisions  of  sections  120.70,  130.20,  130.25,  130.30,  former
     6  section   130.40,   former  section  130.45,  sections  130.60,  230.34,
     7  230.34-a, 250.50, 255.25, 255.26  and  255.27  or  article  two  hundred
     8  sixty-three  of  the  penal  law,  or  section 135.05, 135.10, 135.20 or
     9  135.25 of such law relating to kidnapping offenses, provided the  victim
    10  of  such  kidnapping or related offense is less than seventeen years old
    11  and the offender is not the parent of the  victim,  or  for  a  sexually
    12  motivated  felony  pursuant  to section 130.91, or section 230.04, where
    13  the person patronized is in fact  less  than  seventeen  years  of  age,
    14  230.05,  230.06,  230.11,  230.12,  230.13,  subdivision  two of section
    15  230.30, section 230.32, 230.33, or 230.34 of the penal law,  or  section
    16  230.25  of  the  penal  law where the person prostituted is in fact less
    17  than seventeen years old, or
    18    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    19  have become a law.



         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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