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Senate Bill S2398

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Relates to persistent sexual abuse

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2015-S2398 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง130.53, Pen L
Versions Introduced in 2013-2014 Legislative Session:
S5435

2015-S2398 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to persistent sexual abuse.

2015-S2398 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2015-S2398 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  2398

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                            January 22, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. RITCHIE -- 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 persistent sexual abuse

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

  Section  1. Section 130.53 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 192
of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
S 130.53 Persistent sexual abuse.
  A person is guilty of persistent sexual abuse when he or  she  commits
the  crime  of  forcible  touching, as defined in section 130.52 of this
article, sexual abuse in the third degree, as defined in section  130.55
of  this  article,  or  sexual abuse in the second degree, as defined in
section 130.60 of this article, and, within the previous ten year  peri-
od, excluding any time during which such person was incarcerated for any
reason, has been convicted two or more times, in separate criminal tran-
sactions for which sentence was imposed on separate occasions, of SEXUAL
MISCONDUCT,  AS  DEFINED  IN  SECTION  130.20  OF THIS ARTICLE, forcible
touching, as defined in section 130.52 of this article, sexual abuse  in
the  third  degree  as defined in section 130.55 of this article, sexual
abuse in the second degree, as defined in section 130.60 of  this  arti-
cle,  or any offense defined in this article, of which the commission or
attempted commission thereof is a felony.
  Persistent sexual abuse is a class E felony.
  S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD07666-01-5

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