Bill Text: NY S04196 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Adds the definition of consent to the terms of general use; defines it as a freely given, knowledgeable and informed agreement by a person with the capacity to reason.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2024-05-22 - PRINT NUMBER 4196A [S04196 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S04196-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4196--A

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 6, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced by Sens. SANDERS, STAVISKY -- 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 the definition of consent

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Section 10.00 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
     2  subdivision 23 to read as follows:
     3    23. "Consent" means a freely given, knowledgeable and informed  agree-
     4  ment by a person with the capacity to reason.
     5    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
     6  have become a law.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00419-03-3