Bill Text: NY S02986 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Expands the definition of the offense of coercion in the third degree to include the production or dissemination of nude images.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2021-10-20 - SIGNED CHAP.484 [S02986 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S02986-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2986--A
            Cal. No. 514

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    January 26, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  BROUK, BIAGGI, GAUGHRAN -- read twice and ordered
          printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes --
          reported favorably from said committee, ordered to  first  and  second
          report,  ordered to a third reading, passed by Senate and delivered to
          the Assembly, recalled, vote reconsidered, restored to third  reading,
          amended  and  ordered  reprinted,  retaining its place in the order of
          third reading

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation  to  coercion  in  the  third
          degree

          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 135.60  of  the
     2  penal  law, as amended by section 1 of part NN of chapter 55 of the laws
     3  of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
     4    A person is guilty of coercion in the third  degree  when  he  or  she
     5  compels  or induces a person to engage in conduct which the latter has a
     6  legal right to abstain from engaging in, or to abstain from engaging  in
     7  conduct  in  which  he or she has a legal right to engage, or compels or
     8  induces a person to join a group, organization  or  criminal  enterprise
     9  which such latter person has a right to abstain from joining, or compels
    10  or  induces  a  person  to produce, disseminate, or otherwise display an
    11  image or images depicting nudity of such person or depicting such person
    12  engaged in sexual conduct as defined in subdivisions two  and  three  of
    13  section  235.20  of this chapter, by means of instilling in him or her a
    14  fear that, if the demand is not complied  with,  the  actor  or  another
    15  will:
    16    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
    17  have become a law.


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