Assembly Bill A870

2025-2026 Legislative Session

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

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2025-A870 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §130.53, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A10639
2011-2012: A1768
2013-2014: A1060
2015-2016: A399
2017-2018: A1097
2019-2020: A755
2021-2022: A2130
2023-2024: A461

2025-A870 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2025-A870 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    870
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  ROSENTHAL  --  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] SUCH
 PERSON 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 period, excluding any time during which such person was incarcerat-
 ed for any reason,] has been convicted two or more  times,  in  separate
 criminal  transactions  for which sentence was imposed on separate occa-
 sions, of forcible touching, as defined in section 130.52 of this  arti-
 cle,  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 it shall have become a law.
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02958-01-5

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