Assembly Bill A5139

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to the crime of criminal sexual act in the first degree

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    • In Committee Senate
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2015-A5139 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง130.50, Pen L
Versions Introduced in 2017-2018 Legislative Session:
A646

2015-A5139 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the crime of criminal sexual act in the first degree.

2015-A5139 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  5139

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 12, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. GUNTHER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Codes

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to criminal sexual act in the
  first degree

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

  Section  1. Section 130.50 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 264
of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
S 130.50 Criminal sexual act in the first degree.
  A person is guilty of criminal sexual act in the first degree when  he
or she engages in oral sexual conduct or anal sexual conduct with anoth-
er person:
  1. By forcible compulsion; or
  2. Who is incapable of consent by reason of being physically helpless;
or
  3. Who is less than eleven years old; or
  4. Who is less than thirteen years old and the actor is eighteen years
old or more; OR
  5.  WHO  IS  LESS  THAN  SEVENTEEN YEARS OLD AND THE ACTOR IS EIGHTEEN
YEARS OLD OR MORE AND WHOM HE OR SHE KNOWS TO BE RELATED TO HIM OR  HER,
WHETHER  THROUGH MARRIAGE OR NOT, AS AN ANCESTOR, DESCENDANT, BROTHER OR
SISTER OF EITHER THE WHOLE OR THE HALF BLOOD,  UNCLE,  AUNT,  NEPHEW  OR
NIECE.
  Criminal sexual act 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.
                                                           LBD08015-01-5

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