Assembly Bill A1802

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Relates to removing the requirement that physical injury be caused under the crimes of aggravated sexual abuse in the third and fourth degrees

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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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2023-A1802 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§130.65-a & 130.66, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A9680
2019-2020: A1225
2021-2022: A411

2023-A1802 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to removing the requirement that physical injury be caused under the crimes of aggravated sexual abuse in the third and fourth degrees.

2023-A1802 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1802
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 23, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to removing  the  requirement
   that  physical  injury be caused under the crimes of aggravated sexual
   abuse in the third and fourth degrees

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 130.65-a of the
 penal law, as amended by chapter 485 of the laws of 2009, is amended  to
 read as follows:
   (b)  He  or she inserts a finger in the vagina, urethra, penis, rectum
 or anus of another person [causing physical injury to such  person]  and
 such  person is incapable of consent by reason of some factor other than
 being less than seventeen years old.
   § 2. Subdivision 2 of section 130.66 of the penal law, as  amended  by
 chapter 485 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows:
   2.  A  person is guilty of aggravated sexual abuse in the third degree
 when he or she inserts a foreign object in the vagina,  urethra,  penis,
 rectum  or  anus  of  another  person  [causing  physical injury to such
 person] and such person is incapable  of  consent  by  reason  of  being
 mentally disabled or mentally incapacitated.
   §  3.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD06479-01-3

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