Bill Text: NY S03484 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides a person is guilty of facilitating female genitalia mutilation when such person intentionally aids the commission or attempted commission of a person circumcising, excising or infibulating female genitalia of a person less than 18 years old.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2016-05-04 - SUBSTITUTED BY A47A [S03484 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-S03484-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         3484--A
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 10, 2015
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        Introduced  by Sens. LANZA, PANEPINTO -- read twice and ordered printed,
          and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes  --  recom-
          mitted  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 facilitating female geni-
          tal mutilation
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1.  The penal law is amended by adding a new section 260.22 to
     2  read as follows:
     3  § 260.22 Facilitating female genital mutilation.
     4    A  person  is  guilty  of facilitating female genital mutilation when,
     5  knowing that a person intends to engage in the circumcising, excising or
     6  infibulating of the whole or any part of the labia majora or labia mino-
     7  ra or clitoris of a person under eighteen years of age,  and  except  as
     8  provided in subdivision two of section 130.85 of this chapter, he or she
     9  intentionally  aids  the  commission  or  attempted  commission  of such
    10  conduct.
    11    Facilitating female genital mutilation is a class A misdemeanor.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    13  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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