Assembly Bill A6946

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Amends the definition of forcible touching

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2019-A6946 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §130.52, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A27
2015-2016: A2907
2017-2018: A3111

2019-A6946 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Amends the definition of forcible touching.

2019-A6946 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6946
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 27, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to forcible touching
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 130.52 of the penal law, as amended by chapter  264
 of  the laws of 2003, the opening paragraph and subdivision 1 as amended
 and subdivision 2 as added by chapter  250  of  the  laws  of  2015,  is
 amended to read as follows:
 § 130.52 Forcible touching.
   A  person  is  guilty  of  forcible  touching  when such person inten-
 tionally, and for no legitimate purpose:
   1. forcibly touches the sexual or  other  intimate  parts  of  another
 person  for  the purpose of degrading or abusing such person, or for the
 purpose of gratifying the actor's sexual desire; [or]
   2. subjects another person to sexual contact for the purpose of grati-
 fying the actor's sexual desire and with intent to degrade or abuse such
 other person while such other person is a passenger on a bus, train,  or
 subway  car operated by any transit agency, authority or company, public
 or private, whose operation is authorized by New York state  or  any  of
 its political subdivisions; OR
   3.  TOUCHES  THE  SEXUAL OR OTHER INTIMATE PARTS OF ANOTHER PERSON, OR
 SUBJECTS ANOTHER PERSON TO SEXUAL CONTACT, FOR ANY SUCH PURPOSE, AND THE
 ACTOR INTENTIONALLY SELECTED FOR SUCH ACT OR ACTS A LOCATION  THAT  MADE
 IT  DIFFICULT  OR  IMPOSSIBLE  FOR  THE VICTIM TO AVOID SUCH TOUCHING OR
 SEXUAL CONTACT.
   For the purposes of this section, forcible touching  includes  squeez-
 ing, grabbing or pinching.
   Forcible touching is a class A misdemeanor.
   §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.

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