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Jan 03, 2024 |
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Jan 06, 2023 |
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Senate Bill S747
2023-2024 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D) 32nd Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Crime Victims, Crime And Correction Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2023-S747 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
- Law Section:
- Correction Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §168-a, Cor L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
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2019-2020:
S4568
2021-2022: S2203
2025-2026: S2467
2023-S747 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S747 SPONSOR: SEPULVEDA TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the correction law, in relation to qualifying when kidnapping or related offenses constitute a sex offense SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: This bill amends Correction Law § 168-a (2)(a)(i)to clarify that kidnap- ping offenses are only registerable sex offenses when the kidnapping is done in furtherance of a sex crime. JUSTIFICATION: Currently people convicted of certain kidnapping offenses must register as sex offenders, even if the kidnapping was not sexually motivated. For example, a teenager who forces another teenager into a room in order to steal his lunch money has to register as a sex offender under the current statute. This bill corrects that mistake in the law and clari- fies that only kidnappers with sexual motivations for kidnapping must
2023-S747 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 747 2023-2024 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E January 6, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and Correction AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to qualifying when kidnapping or related offenses constitute a sex offense THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 168-a of the correction law, as amended by chapter 189 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows: (i) a conviction of or a conviction for an attempt to commit any of the provisions of sections 120.70, 130.20, 130.25, 130.30, 130.40, 130.45, 130.60, 230.34, 230.34-a, 250.50, 255.25, 255.26 and 255.27 or article two hundred sixty-three of the penal law, or section 135.05, 135.10, 135.20 or 135.25 of such law relating to kidnapping offenses, provided the victim of such kidnapping or related offense is less than seventeen years old and the offender is not the parent of the victim AND PROVIDED THE KIDNAPPING OR RELATED OFFENSE IS COMMITTED IN FURTHERANCE OF A SEX CRIME AS DEFINED IN THIS ARTICLE, or section 230.04, where the person patronized is in fact less than seventeen years of age, 230.05, 230.06, 230.11, 230.12, 230.13, subdivision two of section 230.30, section 230.32, 230.33, or 230.34 of the penal law, or section 230.25 of the penal law where the person prostituted is in fact less than seven- teen years old, or § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02712-01-3
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