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Assembly Bill A7903

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Requires registration as a sex offender

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2009-A7903 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3232
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §260.10, Pen L; amd §168-a, Cor L
Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
S3206

2009-A7903 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires any defendant convicted for endangering the welfare of a child where there is a sexual element to the crime to register as a sex offender.

2009-A7903 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  7903

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             April 28, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. ABBATE -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Codes

AN  ACT  to  amend  the penal law and the correction law, in relation to
  endangering the welfare of a child

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Section 260.10 of the penal law, subdivision 1 as amended
by chapter 476 of the laws of 1990 and subdivision 2 as amended by chap-
ter 920 of the laws of 1982, is amended to read as follows:
S 260.10 Endangering the welfare of a child.
  A person is guilty of endangering the welfare of a child when:
  1. He OR SHE knowingly acts in a manner likely to be injurious to  the
physical,  mental  or moral welfare of a child less than seventeen years
old or directs or authorizes such  child  to  engage  in  an  occupation
involving a substantial risk of danger to his OR HER life or health; or
  2.  Being  a parent, guardian or other person legally charged with the
care or custody of a child less than eighteen years old, he OR SHE fails
or refuses to exercise reasonable diligence in the control of such child
to prevent him OR HER from becoming  an  "abused  child,"  a  "neglected
child," a "juvenile delinquent" or a "person in need of supervision," as
those  terms  are defined in articles ten, three and seven of the family
court act.
  ANY DEFENDANT CONVICTED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION BASED ON CONDUCT OF A
SEXUAL NATURE OR BEHAVIOR OF A SEXUAL NATURE SHALL BE REQUIRED TO REGIS-
TER AS A SEX OFFENDER PURSUANT TO ARTICLE SIX-C OF THE CORRECTION LAW.
  Endangering the welfare of a child is a class A misdemeanor.
  S 2. Subdivision 2 of section 168-a of the correction law  is  amended
by adding a new paragraph (f) to read as follows:
  (F)  A CONVICTION OF THE PROVISIONS OF SECTION 260.10 OF THE PENAL LAW
WHERE THE DEFENDANT IS REQUIRED BY THE COURT TO REGISTER PURSUANT TO THE
PROVISIONS OF THIS ARTICLE.
  S 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

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