Bill Text: NY S02964 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 2964 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Enacts the "protect our children act"; establishes certain offenses relating to murder of and violence against a child and obstructing the location of a missing child.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 5-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-06-07 - referred to codes [S02964 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S02964-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                         2964--B
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 30, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens.  ORTT,  AVELLA, DeFRANCISCO, LARKIN, YOUNG -- read
          twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
          Committee  on  Codes  --  committee  discharged, bill amended, ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee --  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 criminal procedure law, the vehicle
          and traffic law, the estates, powers and trusts  law  and  the  social
          services  law,  in relation to establishing the offenses of aggravated
          murder of a child, aggravated abuse of a child in  the  third  degree,
          aggravated  abuse of a child in the second degree, aggravated abuse of
          a child in the first  degree,  aggravated  manslaughter  of  a  child,
          aggravated  endangering the welfare of a child, aggravated murder of a
          child, and obstructing the location of a missing child; and to  repeal
          subdivision  5  of  section  125.25  of  the penal law relating to the
          murder of a person under 14 years  of  age  while  in  the  course  of
          committing certain sex offenses
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
     2  the "protect our children act".
     3    §  2.  Section  10.00  of  the  penal law is amended by adding two new
     4  subdivisions 22 and 23 to read as follows:
     5    22. "Person in a position of trust" means any person  who  is  charged
     6  with  any  duty  or  responsibility  for the health, education, welfare,
     7  supervision or care of another person, either independently  or  through
     8  another person, no matter how brief.
     9    23. "Child abuse offense" means:
    10    (a)  patronizing  a  prostitute  in  the  second  degree as defined in
    11  section 230.05; patronizing a prostitute in the first degree as  defined
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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