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

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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]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4196

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                    February 6, 2023
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        Introduced by Sens. SANDERS, STAVISKY -- 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 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 22 to read as follows:
     3    22.  "Consent" means a freely given, knowledgeable and informed agree-
     4  ment.
     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.
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