Assembly Bill A10412

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Replaces the word rape with the term sexual battery

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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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2021-A10412 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd Various Law, generally
Versions Introduced in 2023-2024 Legislative Session:
A4450

2021-A10412 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Replaces the word rape with the term sexual battery.

2021-A10412 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10412
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 13, 2022
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Morinello)
   -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, the  agriculture  and  markets  law,  the
   criminal procedure law, the civil practice law and rules, the domestic
   relations  law, the education law, the executive law, the family court
   act, the general business law, the judiciary law, the labor  law,  the
   public health law, the public service law, the social services law and
   the  administrative  code  of  the  city  of  New York, in relation to
   replacing the word rape with the term sexual battery
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 130.25 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 1 of
 the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
 § 130.25 [Rape] SEXUAL BATTERY in the third degree.
   A person is guilty of [rape] SEXUAL BATTERY in the third degree when:
   1.  He or she engages in sexual intercourse with another person who is
 incapable of consent by reason of some factor other than being less than
 seventeen years old;
   2. Being twenty-one years old or more, he or  she  engages  in  sexual
 intercourse with another person less than seventeen years old; or
   3. He or she engages in sexual intercourse with another person without
 such  person's  consent  where such lack of consent is by reason of some
 factor other than incapacity to consent.
   [Rape] SEXUAL BATTERY in the third degree is a class E felony.
   § 2. Section 130.30 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 1  of  the
 laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows:
 § 130.30 [Rape] SEXUAL BATTERY in the second degree.
   A person is guilty of [rape] SEXUAL BATTERY in the second degree when:
   1.  being  eighteen  years  old  or  more, he or she engages in sexual
 intercourse with another person less than fifteen years old; or
   2. he or she engages in sexual intercourse with another person who  is
 incapable  of  consent  by reason of being mentally disabled or mentally
 incapacitated.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15272-01-2
              

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