Bill Text: NY S01266 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Designates promoting prostitution in the first degree, compelling prostitution and sex trafficking as class B violent felonies; defines the class B felony of promoting prostitution in the first degree to be the advancing or profiting from the prostitution of a person under 16 years of age.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-13 - PRINT NUMBER 1266A [S01266 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S01266-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         1266--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 9, 2015
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        Introduced  by  Sens. PERALTA, AVELLA -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes  --  recom-
          mitted  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, in relation to designating promoting
          prostitution in the first  degree,  compelling  prostitution  and  sex
          trafficking as class B violent felony offenses and the prostitution of
          minors
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1  of  section  70.02  of  the
     2  penal  law, as amended by chapter 368 of the laws of 2015, is amended to
     3  read as follows:
     4    (a) Class B violent felony offenses: an attempt to  commit  the  class
     5  A-I  felonies  of  murder  in  the  second  degree as defined in section
     6  125.25, kidnapping in the first degree as defined in section 135.25, and
     7  arson in the first degree as defined in section 150.20; manslaughter  in
     8  the  first  degree as defined in section 125.20, aggravated manslaughter
     9  in the first degree as defined in section  125.22,  rape  in  the  first
    10  degree  as  defined  in section 130.35, criminal sexual act in the first
    11  degree as defined in section 130.50,  aggravated  sexual  abuse  in  the
    12  first  degree  as  defined  in  section 130.70, course of sexual conduct
    13  against a child in the  first  degree  as  defined  in  section  130.75;
    14  assault  in the first degree as defined in section 120.10, kidnapping in
    15  the second degree as defined in section 135.20, burglary  in  the  first
    16  degree  as  defined  in  section  140.30,  arson in the second degree as
    17  defined in section 150.15, robbery in the first  degree  as  defined  in
    18  section 160.15, promoting prostitution in the first degree as defined in
    19  section  230.32,  compelling  prostitution as defined in section 230.33,
    20  sex trafficking as defined in [paragraphs (a)  and  (b)  of  subdivision

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