Bill Text: NY S03212 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 3212 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Establishes the class B felony of promoting a sex offense against a child for producing, directing or promoting any visual or audio representation of the commission of a sex offense against a person under the age of 16 years; establishes the class C felony of possessing a sex offense against a child for knowingly possessing any such representation; designates both such felonies as violent felony offenses.

Sponsorship: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 13-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-05-03 - referred to codes [S03212 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S03212-Amended.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3212--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 3, 2015
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sens. YOUNG, AVELLA, BONACIC, DeFRANCISCO, FUNKE, GALLI-
          VAN, GOLDEN, LANZA, LARKIN, O'MARA, ORTT, RANZENHOFER, RITCHIE -- read
          twice and ordered printed, and when printed to  be  committed  to  the
          Committee on Codes -- recommitted to the Committee on Codes in accord-
          ance 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 establishing the offenses
          of promoting and possessing a sex offense against a child
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Paragraphs (a) and (b) of subdivision 1 of section 70.02 of
     2  the  penal  law,  paragraph (a) as amended by chapter 368 of the laws of
     3  2015 and paragraph (b) as amended by chapter 1 of the laws of 2013,  are
     4  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 degree as defined in section  130.70,  course  of  sexual  conduct
    14  against  a  child  in  the  first  degree  as defined in section 130.75;
    15  assault in the first degree as defined in section 120.10, kidnapping  in
    16  the  second  degree  as defined in section 135.20, burglary in the first
    17  degree as defined in section 140.30,  arson  in  the  second  degree  as
    18  defined  in  section  150.15,  robbery in the first degree as defined in
    19  section 160.15, promoting a sex offense against a child  as  defined  in
    20  section  263.35, sex trafficking as defined in paragraphs (a) and (b) of
    21  subdivision five of section  230.34,  incest  in  the  first  degree  as
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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