Bill Text: NY S06185 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Specifies that a person convicted of prostitution, or a person whose participation in the offense is determined by a court to be a result of having been a victim of sex trafficking is excluded from the definition of designated offender.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2021-06-10 - SUBSTITUTED BY A118B [S06185 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-S06185-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6185--A

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     April 13, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen.  LANZA  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Internet and Technology --
          committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as  amended  and
          recommitted to said committee

        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  executive law, in relation to the definition of
          designated offender

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

     1    Section  1.  Subdivision  7  of  section  995 of the executive law, as
     2  amended by chapter 92 of the  laws  of  2021,  is  amended  to  read  as
     3  follows:
     4    7.  "Designated  offender"  means  a  person  convicted  of any felony
     5  defined in any chapter of the laws  of  the  state  or  any  misdemeanor
     6  defined  in the penal law except: (a) a person convicted of prostitution
     7  under section 230.00 of the penal law, or (b)  a  person  whose  partic-
     8  ipation in the offense is determined by a court to have been a result of
     9  having  been  a  victim  of  sex trafficking under section 230.34 of the
    10  penal law, sex trafficking of a child  under  section  230.34-a  of  the
    11  penal  law,  or  trafficking  in  persons  under the trafficking victims
    12  protection act (United States Code, Title 22, Chapter 78).
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02024-05-1