Bill Text: NY S02994 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Increases the penalties for the violent sex offenses of rape, criminal sexual act and aggravated sexual abuse when committed in a forcible manner where an actor or accomplice is armed with or displays a deadly weapon, uses or threatens the use of a dangerous instrument or inflicts physical injury upon the victim.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 7-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-02-08 - PRINT NUMBER 2994A [S02994 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S02994-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2994--A 2015-2016 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 2, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sens. YOUNG, BONACIC, FUNKE, LARKIN, O'MARA, ORTT, RANZEN- HOFER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes -- 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, in relation to aggravated sexual offenses; and to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to youthful offender status The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of subdivision 1 of section 2 70.02 of the penal law, paragraphs (a) and (c) as amended by chapter 368 3 of the laws of 2015, and paragraph (b) as amended by chapter 1 of the 4 laws of 2013, are amended to read as follows: 5 (a) Class B violent felony offenses: an attempt to commit the class 6 A-I felonies of murder in the second degree as defined in section 7 125.25, kidnapping in the first degree as defined in section 135.25, and 8 arson in the first degree as defined in section 150.20; manslaughter in 9 the first degree as defined in section 125.20, aggravated manslaughter 10 in the first degree as defined in section 125.22, rape in the first 11 degree as defined in section 130.35, criminal sexual act in the first 12 degree as defined in section 130.50, aggravated sexual abuse in the 13 [first] second degree as defined in section 130.70, course of sexual 14 conduct against a child in the first degree as defined in section 15 130.75; assault in the first degree as defined in section 120.10, 16 kidnapping in the second degree as defined in section 135.20, burglary 17 in the first degree as defined in section 140.30, arson in the second 18 degree as defined in section 150.15, robbery in the first degree as 19 defined in section 160.15, sex trafficking as defined in paragraphs (a) 20 and (b) of subdivision five of section 230.34, incest in the first EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD05965-02-6