Assembly Bill A490

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Includes instances of sexual conduct against a child less than seventeen years of age to certain sex offenses

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Current 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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2025-A490 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S490
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§130.75, 130.80 & 130.96, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S7248
2021-2022: S406
2023-2024: A8193, S4046

2025-A490 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes instances of sexual conduct against a child less than seventeen years of age to certain sex offenses; removes the time limit to bring subsequent sexual offenses.

2025-A490 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    490
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the penal law, in relation to including instances of
   sexual conduct against a child less than seventeen  years  of  age  to
   certain sex offenses

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 130.75 of the penal law, as
 amended by chapter 1 of the laws of 2000,  paragraphs  (a)  and  (b)  of
 subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 777 of the laws of 2023, are amended
 to read as follows:
   [1.] A person is guilty of course of sexual conduct against a child in
 the  first degree when, over a period of time not less than three months
 in duration:
   [(a) he or she] 1. SUCH PERSON engages in two or more acts  of  sexual
 conduct, which includes at least one act of vaginal sexual contact, oral
 sexual contact, anal sexual contact or aggravated sexual contact, with a
 child  less  than eleven years old; AND INCLUDES AT LEAST ONE ADDITIONAL
 ACT OF SEXUAL CONTACT WITH THE CHILD WHEN THAT CHILD IS LESS THAN SEVEN-
 TEEN YEARS OLD; or
   [(b) he or she] 2. SUCH PERSON, being eighteen years old or  more,  AT
 THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE COURSE OF SEXUAL CONTACT, engages in two or more
 acts of sexual conduct, which include at least one act of vaginal sexual
 contact,  oral  sexual contact, anal sexual contact or aggravated sexual
 contact, with a child less than thirteen  years  old;  AND  INCLUDES  AT
 LEAST  ONE  ADDITIONAL  ACT  OF  SEXUAL CONTACT WITH THE CHILD WHEN THAT
 CHILD IS LESS THAN SEVENTEEN YEARS OLD.
   [2. A person may not be subsequently prosecuted for any  other  sexual
 offense  involving  the  same  victim  unless  the other charged offense
 occurred outside the time period charged under this section.]
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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