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Jan 04, 2012 |
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Jan 11, 2011 |
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Senate Bill S1702
2011-2012 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D, WF) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Codes Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2011-S1702 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Codes
- Law Section:
- Penal Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd ยง230.07, Pen L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
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2009-2010:
S147
2013-2014: S519
2015-2016: S4013
2011-S1702 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S1702 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the penal law, in relation to eliminating defenses for patronizing a prostitute in the first degree PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: Eliminates the defense that the person charged with patronizing a prostitute in the first degree did not have reasonable grounds to believe that the person was less than the age specified. SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: Section 230.07 of the penal law is amended to eliminate the defense allowed under section 230.07 in cases where a defendant is charged with patronizing a prostitute in the first degree. EFFECTS OF PRESENT LAW WHICH THIS BILL WOULD ALTER: Currently under section 230.07 of the penal law, defendants charged with patronizing a prostitute in the first degree are allowed to apply the defense that the defendant did not have reasonable grounds to believe that the person was less than the age specified. This bill eliminates this defense for defendants charged with patronizing a prostitute in the first degree. JUSTIFICATION:
2011-S1702 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1702 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E January 11, 2011 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SAMPSON -- 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 eliminating defenses for patronizing a prostitute in the first degree THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 230.07 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 74 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows: S 230.07 Patronizing a prostitute; defense. In any prosecution for patronizing a prostitute in the [first or] second OR THIRD [degrees] DEGREE, it is a defense that the defendant did not have reasonable grounds to believe that the person was less than the age specified. S 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05908-01-1
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