Bill Text: NY S02275 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Defines the crime of incest to exclude child sexual abuse.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-01-18 - REFERRED TO CODES [S02275 Detail]
Download: New_York-2011-S02275-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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2275
2011-2012 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
January 18, 2011
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Introduced by Sen. KRUGER -- 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 excluding child sexual
abuse from the definition of the crime of incest
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. The first undesignated paragraph of section 255.25 of the
2 penal law, as amended by chapter 320 of the laws of 2006, is amended to
3 read as follows:
4 A person is guilty of incest in the third degree when he or she
5 marries or engages in sexual intercourse, oral sexual conduct or anal
6 sexual conduct with [a person] AN ADULT whom he or she knows to be
7 related to him or her, whether through marriage or not, as an ancestor,
8 descendant, brother or sister of either the whole or the half blood,
9 uncle, aunt, nephew or niece.
10 S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
11 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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