Assembly Bill A1097

2017-2018 Legislative Session

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

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • 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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2017-A1097 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5027
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §130.53, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A10639, S7434
2011-2012: A1768, S1365
2013-2014: A1060, S1222
2015-2016: A399, S2418
2019-2020: A755, S1855
2021-2022: A2130, S423
2023-2024: A461, S1951

2017-A1097 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2017-A1097 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1097
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 10, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. ROSENTHAL -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. OAKS
   -- 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  192
 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
 § 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, excluding any time during which such person was incarcerated for any
 reason,]  has  been  convicted  two  or more times, in separate criminal
 transactions for which sentence was imposed on  separate  occasions,  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,
 sexual  abuse in the second degree, as defined in section 130.60 of this
 article, 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.
   § 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.
                                                            LBD04965-01-7

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