Bill Text: NY S03653 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 3653 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Prohibits possession of an image of a minor victim by child sex offenders and prohibits any other person from disseminating to such person any image of a child victim of such sex offense.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-08-11 - RECOMMIT, ENACTING CLAUSE STRICKEN [S03653 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S03653-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3653
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 11, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  JACOBS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in  relation  to  prohibiting  child  sex
          offenders from possessing images of their victims
          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 263.35  to
     2  read as follows:
     3  § 263.35 Criminal possession of an image of a minor victim.
     4    A  person  is  guilty  of  criminal  possession of an image of a minor
     5  victim when he or she:
     6    1. has been convicted of a sex offense as defined in  subdivision  two
     7  or  three  of  section  one hundred sixty-eight-a of the correction law,
     8  where the victim of such offense  was  a  minor,  and  such  person  has
     9  possession of one or more images, recordings, or any other depictions of
    10  the victim or victims of such sex offense; or
    11    2.  knowingly  disseminates  to a person convicted of a sex offense as
    12  defined in subdivision two or three of section one hundred sixty-eight-a
    13  of the correction law, where the victim of such offense was a minor, one
    14  or more images, recordings, or any other depictions  of  the  victim  or
    15  victims of such sex offense.
    16    Criminal possession of an image of a minor victim is a class E felony.
    17    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    18  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04738-01-9