Bill Text: NY S07089 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

New York Senate Bill 7089 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Relates to the ability of a fare-paying passenger in a vehicle for hire to consent to sexual activity inside the vehicle with the operator of the vehicle.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-31 - PRINT NUMBER 7089A [S07089 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S07089-Amended.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                         7089--A

                    IN SENATE

                                       (Prefiled)

                                     January 8, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  BIAGGI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Codes  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the ability of a fare-pay-
          ing  passenger  in  a  vehicle  for hire to consent to sexual activity
          inside the vehicle with the operator of the vehicle

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

     1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (j)  of subdivision 3 of section 130.05 of the
     2  penal law, as added by section 1 of part JJ of chapter 55 of the laws of
     3  2018, is amended and a new paragraph (k) is added to read as follows:
     4    (j) detained or otherwise in the custody of a  police  officer,  peace
     5  officer,  or  other  law  enforcement official and the actor is a police
     6  officer, peace officer or other law enforcement official who either: (i)
     7  is detaining or maintaining custody of such person; or  (ii)  knows,  or
     8  reasonably should know, that at the time of the offense, such person was
     9  detained or in custody[.]; or
    10    (k)  a  passenger who entered a vehicle for hire, in anticipation of a
    11  fare being paid or after a fare has been paid,  for  transportation,  is
    12  inside  said  vehicle  for  hire,  and the actor is the operator of such
    13  vehicle.
    14    § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
    15  have become a law.




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