Senate Bill S5796

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the definition of a sex offense

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Crime Victims, Crime And Correction 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-S5796 (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:
2019-2020: S2694
2021-2022: S2963
2023-2024: S3240

2025-S5796 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the definition of a sex offense; provides that if luring a child or the attempt thereto requires an actor to register as a sex offender, then the act is determined to be a sex offense.

2025-S5796 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S5796 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5796
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               March 3, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens.  SEPULVEDA,  COMRIE,  GOUNARDES  -- 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 the definition of 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  23  of  the
 laws of 2024, 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, PROVIDED THE UNDERLYING  OFFENSE  THE
 ACTOR  INTENDED  TO COMMIT CONSTITUTES AN OFFENSE FOR WHICH REGISTRATION
 AS A SEX OFFENDER IS REQUIRED PURSUANT TO THIS ARTICLE, 130.20,  130.25,
 130.30,  former  section 130.40, former section 130.45, sections 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,  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 seventeen 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.
                                                            LBD10477-01-5

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