Bill Text: NY A08334 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to a minimum term of imprisonment for class E felony sex offenses.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to codes [A08334 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A08334-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8334

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      June 14, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. FRONTUS -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to a minimum term  of  impri-
          sonment for class E felony sex offenses

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

     1    Section 1. The closing paragraph of section 130.25 of the  penal  law,
     2  as  amended  by  chapter  1  of  the laws of 2000, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    Rape in the third degree is a class E felony; upon conviction of  rape
     5  in the third degree the person convicted shall receive a minimum term of
     6  imprisonment of one year.
     7    §  2.  The  closing  paragraph  of section 130.40 of the penal law, as
     8  amended by chapter 264 of the laws  of  2003,  is  amended  to  read  as
     9  follows:
    10    Criminal  sexual  act  in  the  third degree is a class E felony; upon
    11  conviction of criminal  sexual  act  in  the  third  degree  the  person
    12  convicted shall receive a minimum term of imprisonment of one year.
    13    §  3. The second undesignated paragraph of section 130.53 of the penal
    14  law, as amended by chapter 192 of the laws of 2014, is amended  to  read
    15  as follows:
    16    Persistent  sexual  abuse  is  a  class  E  felony; upon conviction of
    17  persistent sexual abuse the person convicted  shall  receive  a  minimum
    18  term of imprisonment of one year.
    19    §  4.  The  closing paragraph of section 130.65-a of the penal law, as
    20  added by chapter 1 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
    21    Aggravated sexual abuse in the fourth degree is a class E felony; upon
    22  conviction of aggravated sexual abuse in the fourth degree the    person
    23  convicted shall receive a minimum term of imprisonment of one year.
    24    §  5.  The  closing  paragraph  of section 130.85 of the penal law, as
    25  added by chapter 618 of the laws of 1997, is amended to read as follows:

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13106-02-9
        A. 8334                             2

     1    Female genital mutilation is a class  E  felony;  upon  conviction  of
     2  female  genital  mutilation the person convicted shall receive a minimum
     3  term of imprisonment of one year.
     4    § 6. This act shall take effect immediately.