Bill Text: NY S00618 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes an affirmative defense against patronizing a prostitute.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-06-22 - referred to codes [S00618 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-S00618-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 618 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E (PREFILED) January 5, 2011 ___________ Introduced by Sen. KLEIN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to defenses against patroniz- ing a prostitute THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Section 230.07 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 74 2 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows: 3 S 230.07 Patronizing a prostitute; defense. 4 In any prosecution for patronizing a prostitute in the first or second 5 degrees, it is [a] AN AFFIRMATIVE defense that the defendant did not 6 have reasonable grounds to believe that the person was less than the age 7 specified. 8 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD00764-01-1