Assembly Bill A4707

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Changes the designation of incest from a class E to a class B felony

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

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2015-A4707 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S466
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยงยง255.25 & 255.26, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A1324, S2567
2011-2012: A709, S332
2013-2014: A1471, S695
2017-2018: A2943, S5085
2019-2020: A4932
2021-2022: A4081
2023-2024: A2077
2025-2026: A2458

2015-A4707 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Changes the designation of incest in the third degree from a class E to a class B felony, and incest in the second degree from a class D to a class B felony.

2015-A4707 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  4707

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 5, 2015
                               ___________

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

AN  ACT  to  amend the penal law, in relation to making incest a class B
  felony

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

  Section  1. The second undesignated paragraph of section 255.25 of the
penal law, as amended by chapter 320 of the laws of 2006, is amended  to
read as follows:
  Incest in the third degree is a class [E] B felony.
  S  2. The second undesignated paragraph of section 255.26 of the penal
law, as added by chapter 320 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read  as
follows:
  Incest in the second degree is a class [D] B felony.
  S 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
ing the date on which it shall have become a law.






 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD01123-01-5

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