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Assembly Bill A5235

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Increases the penalty for unlawfully dealing with a minor in the first degree to a class E felony

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2011-A5235 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง260.20, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A6121
2013-2014: A1550
2015-2016: A5660
2017-2018: A4807

2011-A5235 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the penalty for unlawfully dealing with a minor in the first degree from a class A misdemeanor to a class E felony.

2011-A5235 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  5235

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 14, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. HOOPER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COLTON,
  MAYERSOHN, ORTIZ, SCARBOROUGH -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Codes

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to increasing the penalty for
  unlawfully dealing with a child in the first degree to a class E felo-
  ny

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

  Section  1.  The closing paragraph of section 260.20 of the penal law,
as amended by chapter 362 of the laws of 1992, is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  Unlawfully  dealing  with  a  child  in the first degree is a class [A
misdemeanor] E FELONY.
  S 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.
                                                           LBD06881-01-1

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