Bill Text: NY S05230 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to creating an affirmative defense in certain cases involving sexting by persons under the age of 18.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO CODES [S05230 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S05230-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
                                          5230
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     March 16, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by Sen. 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  creating  an  affirmative
          defense in certain cases involving sexting by persons under the age of
          18
          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  40.20  to
     2  read as follows:
     3  § 40.20 Certain acts by a young person.
     4    In  any  prosecution  pursuant  to section 235.21 or 235.22 or section
     5  263.10, 263.11, 263.15 or 263.16 of this chapter, it is  an  affirmative
     6  defense  that  the  defendant was less than eighteen years old, and that
     7  there is a less than four year age difference between the defendant  and
     8  the  recipient  at the time of the act, and the depiction or description
     9  was not obtained in violation of section 250.45 or 250.50 of this  chap-
    10  ter,  and  both  the  defendant and the recipient expressly or impliedly
    11  acquiesced in the conduct, and the defendant did not intend to or profit
    12  from such conduct.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04379-01-7
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