Assembly Bill A10639

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Relates to removing the ten year time period from the crime of persistent sexual abuse

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-A10639 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7434
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง130.53, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A1768, S1365
2013-2014: A1060, S1222
2015-2016: A399, S2418
2017-2018: A1097, S5027
2019-2020: A755, S1855
2021-2022: A2130, S423
2023-2024: A461, S1951

2009-A10639 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to removing the ten year time period from the crime of persistent sexual abuse.

2009-A10639 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2009-A10639 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  10639

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             April 13, 2010
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL  --  read once and referred to the
  Committee on Codes

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to removing  a  certain  time
  period for the crime of persistent sexual abuse

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Section 130.53 of the penal law, as amended by chapter  264
of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
S 130.53 Persistent sexual abuse.
  A  person  is guilty of persistent sexual abuse when he or she commits
the crime of forcible touching, as defined in  section  130.52  of  this
article,  sexual abuse in the third degree, as defined in section 130.55
of this article, or sexual abuse in the second  degree,  as  defined  in
section 130.60 of this article, and[, within the previous ten year peri-
od,]  has  been convicted two or more times, in separate criminal trans-
actions for which sentence was imposed on separate occasions, of  forci-
ble touching, as defined in section 130.52 of this article, sexual abuse
in the third degree as defined in section 130.55 of this article, sexual
abuse  in  the second degree, as defined in section 130.60 of this arti-
cle, or any offense defined in this article, of which the commission  or
attempted commission thereof is a felony.
  Persistent sexual abuse is a class E felony.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
ing the date on which this act shall have become a law.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD15194-02-0

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