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Senate Bill S6361

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Includes individuals with a mental defect as a victim under sexual abuse in the first degree

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2013-S6361 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A1501
Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §130.65, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S6285, A906
2011-2012: S621, A419
2015-2016: A699
2017-2018: A843
2019-2020: A3713

2013-S6361 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes individuals with a mental disease or defect as a victim under sexual abuse in the first degree.

2013-S6361 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2013-S6361 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  6361

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 21, 2014
                               ___________

Introduced  by Sen. CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to including individuals with
  a mental defect as a victim under sexual abuse in the first degree

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

  Section  1.  Subdivision  4  of  section  130.65  of the penal law, as
amended by chapter 26 of the laws of 2011, is amended and a new subdivi-
sion 5 is added to read as follows:
  4. When the other person is less than thirteen years old and the actor
is twenty-one years old or older[.]; OR
  5. WHEN THE OTHER PERSON HAS A MENTAL DISEASE OR DEFECT.
  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.
                                                           LBD02375-02-3

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