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Assembly Bill A2412

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Adds the prostitution of a child less than 17 by a parent, guardian or person charged with the custody of such child, to class B felony of promoting prostitution in the 1st degree

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2013-A2412 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2244
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง230.32, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S2114
2011-2012: A9518, S1991
2015-2016: A95, S1109
2017-2018: A2127, S231

2013-A2412 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes within the class B felony of promoting prostitution in the first degree, the knowing advancement or profiting from the prostitution of a child less than 17 years old by such child's parent, guardian or other person charged with the custody and care of the child.

2013-A2412 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  2412

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            January 15, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of A. SIMANOWITZ, BRINDISI, JAFFEE, LAVINE, GUNTHER,
  BENEDETTO, COLTON, ARROYO, BRAUNSTEIN,  SCARBOROUGH,  RUSSELL,  GALEF,
  WEPRIN,  HOOPER  --  Multi-Sponsored  by  -- M. of A. ABBATE, BARCLAY,
  BOYLAND, CERETTO, CROUCH,  CURRAN,  FINCH,  GRAF,  HIKIND,  LOSQUADRO,
  McDONOUGH,  McKEVITT,  MONTESANO, SALADINO, STEVENSON, TENNEY, TITONE,
  WEISENBERG -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes

AN ACT to amend the penal law,  in  relation  to  including  within  the
  offense  of  promoting prostitution in the first degree, the prostitu-
  tion of a child by a parent, guardian or person charged with the  care
  and custody of the child

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

  Section 1. Section 230.32 of the penal law, as added by chapter 627 of
the laws of 1978, is amended to read as follows:
S 230.32 Promoting prostitution in the first degree.
  A person is guilty of promoting prostitution in the first degree  when
[he]:
  1.  HE  OR  SHE  knowingly  advances or profits from prostitution of a
[person] CHILD less than eleven years old[.]; OR
  2. BEING THE PARENT, GUARDIAN OR OTHER PERSON LEGALLY CHARGED WITH THE
CARE AND CUSTODY OF A CHILD LESS THAN SEVENTEEN YEARS  OLD,  HE  OR  SHE
KNOWINGLY ADVANCES OR PROFITS FROM PROSTITUTION OF SUCH CHILD.
  Promoting prostitution in the first degree is a class B 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.
                                                           LBD03561-01-3

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