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                                 819--A

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 7, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sens.  LITTLE,  LANZA,  SEWARD -- 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 providing that an elemen-
  tary or secondary school student shall be incapable of  consenting  to
  sexual conduct with a school employee

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

  Section 1. Section 130.00 of the penal law is amended by adding a  new
subdivision 14 to read as follows:
  14.  "SCHOOL  EMPLOYEE" SHALL MEAN ANY PERSON DEFINED AS AN "EMPLOYEE"
OR "VOLUNTEER" PURSUANT TO SECTION ELEVEN  HUNDRED  TWENTY-FIVE  OF  THE
EDUCATION LAW.
  S  2.  Paragraph  (i)  of subdivision 3 of section 130.05 of the penal
law, as added by section 2 of part G of chapter 501 of the laws of 2012,
is amended and a new paragraph (j) is added to read as follows:
  (i) a resident  or  inpatient  of  a  residential  facility  operated,
licensed  or  certified  by  (i)  the  office of mental health; (ii) the
office for people with developmental disabilities; or (iii)  the  office
of alcoholism and substance abuse services, and the actor is an employee
of  the facility not married to such resident or inpatient. For purposes
of this paragraph, "employee" means either: an employee  of  the  agency
operating  the residential facility, who knows or reasonably should know
that such person is a resident or inpatient of  such  facility  and  who
provides  direct  care  services,  case  management services, medical or
other clinical services, habilitative services or direct supervision  of
the residents in the facility in which the resident resides; or an offi-
cer  or other employee, consultant, contractor or volunteer of the resi-
dential facility, who knows or reasonably should know that the person is

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

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a resident of such facility and who is in direct contact with  residents
or  inpatients; provided, however, that the provisions of this paragraph
shall only apply to a  consultant,  contractor  or  volunteer  providing
services pursuant to a contractual arrangement with the agency operating
the  residential  facility  or,  in  the  case of a volunteer, a written
agreement with such facility, provided that the person received  written
notice  concerning  the  provisions of this paragraph; provided further,
however, "employee" shall not include  a  person  with  a  developmental
disability who is or was receiving services and is also an employee of a
service provider and who has sexual contact with another service recipi-
ent who is a consenting adult who has consented to such contact[.]; OR
  (J) A STUDENT AT AN ELEMENTARY OR SECONDARY SCHOOL, AND THE ACTOR:
  (I)  IS A SCHOOL EMPLOYEE AT THE SAME SCHOOL OR CO-LOCATED SCHOOL SUCH
STUDENT ATTENDS, AND
  (II) IS EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER AND MORE THAN FOUR YEARS  OLDER
THAN SUCH STUDENT AT THE TIME OF THE ACT, AND
  (III) IS NOT MARRIED TO SUCH STUDENT, AND
  (IV)  KNOWS OR REASONABLY SHOULD KNOW THAT SUCH PERSON IS A STUDENT AT
SUCH SCHOOL OR CO-LOCATED SCHOOL, AND
  (V) HE OR SHE IS NOT A STUDENT AT THE SAME SCHOOL.
  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.