Assembly Bill A1606

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Establishes the crime of forcible touching of a correction officer and increases criminal penalties for certain sexual offenses committed against correction officers

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    • In Committee Senate
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2023-A1606 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5506
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd Pen L, generally
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A8647, S8027

2023-A1606 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the crime of forcible touching of a correction officer; increases criminal penalties for certain sexual offenses committed against correction officers when such correction officer is acting in the course of their employment.

2023-A1606 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1606
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 17, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN  ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime of
   forcible touching of a correction officer, and  to  increase  criminal
   penalties  for  certain  sexual  offenses committed against correction
   officers

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The penal law is amended by adding a new section 130.52-a
 to read as follows:
 § 130.52-A FORCIBLE TOUCHING OF A CORRECTION OFFICER.
   A PERSON IS GUILTY OF FORCIBLE TOUCHING OF A CORRECTION  OFFICER  WHEN
 SUCH  PERSON  INTENTIONALLY,  AND  FOR  NO  LEGITIMATE PURPOSE, FORCIBLY
 TOUCHES THE SEXUAL OR OTHER INTIMATE PARTS OF A CORRECTION  OFFICER  FOR
 THE  PURPOSE OF DEGRADING OR ABUSING SUCH OFFICER, OR FOR THE PURPOSE OF
 GRATIFYING THE ACTOR'S SEXUAL DESIRE, WHEN SUCH  CORRECTION  OFFICER  IS
 ACTING IN THE COURSE OF THEIR EMPLOYMENT.
   FOR  THE  PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, FORCIBLE TOUCHING INCLUDES SQUEEZ-
 ING, GRABBING OR PINCHING.
   FORCIBLE TOUCHING OF A CORRECTION OFFICER IS A CLASS E FELONY.
   § 2. Section 130.20 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 1  of  the
 laws  of  2000,  subdivision  2 as amended by chapter 264 of the laws of
 2003, is amended to read as follows:
 § 130.20 Sexual misconduct.
   A person is guilty of sexual misconduct when:
   1. He or she engages in sexual intercourse with another person without
 such person's consent; or
   2. He or she engages in oral sexual conduct  or  anal  sexual  conduct
 with another person without such person's consent; or
   3.  He or she engages in sexual conduct with an animal or a dead human
 body.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01241-01-3
              

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