STATE OF NEW YORK
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112--A
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
(Prefiled)
January 7, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. DIAZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes -- recommitted to
the Committee on Codes in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the penal law, the correction law, the criminal proce-
dure law, the civil rights law, the family court act, the mental
hygiene law, the multiple dwelling law, the public health law, the
real property actions and proceedings law, the real property law and
the vehicle and traffic law, in relation to prostitution offenses and
creating the crime of sexual exploitation of a child
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 230.00 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 169
2 of the laws of 1969, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 230.00 [Prostitution] Criminal prostitution.
4 A person is guilty of criminal prostitution when, being seventeen
5 years old or more, such person engages or agrees or offers to engage in
6 sexual conduct with another person in return for a fee.
7 [Prostitution] Criminal prostitution is a class B [Misdemeanor] misde-
8 meanor.
9 § 2. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 230.00-a to read
10 as follows:
11 § 230.00-a Unlawful prostitution.
12 A person is guilty of unlawful prostitution when, being less than
13 seventeen years old, such person engages or agrees or offers to engage
14 in sexual conduct with another person in return for a fee.
15 Unlawful prostitution is a violation, provided, however, that any
16 person who has previously been convicted of a crime defined in this
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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