Bill Text: NY S01618 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Raises the penalty for sexual abuse in the 2nd degree from a class A misdemeanor to a class E felony.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-01-30 - referred to codes [S01618 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-S01618-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1618 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E January 10, 2011 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SAMPSON -- 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 changing sexual abuse in the second degree from a class A misdemeanor to a class E felony 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 130.60 of the penal law, 2 as amended by chapter 1 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 Sexual abuse in the second degree is a class [A misdemeanor] E FELONY. 5 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05855-01-1