Senate Bill S9447

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Increases the severity of the offense of sexual conduct against a child in the second degree

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Archive: Last Bill Status Via A7079 - Passed Senate

  • 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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2021-S9447 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A7079
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §130.66, Pen L

2021-S9447 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Expands the definition of the offense of sexual conduct against a child in the third degree to include at least one act of specified types of sexual contact.

2021-S9447 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S9447 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9447
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 27, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- 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 sexual conduct  against  a
   child in the third degree
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 1 of  section  130.66  of  the  penal  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  485  of  the  laws  of 2009, is amended to read as
 follows:
   1. A person is guilty of aggravated sexual abuse in the  third  degree
 when  he  or  she  inserts  a  foreign object OR A FINGER in the vagina,
 urethra, penis, rectum or anus of another person:
   (a) By forcible compulsion; or
   (b) When the other person is incapable of consent by reason  of  being
 physically helpless; [or]
   (c) When the other person is less than eleven years old[.]; OR
   (D)  WHEN  THE  OTHER  PERSON  IS LESS THAN THIRTEEN YEARS OLD AND THE
 ACTOR IS EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD10674-10-2

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