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Senate Bill S2203

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Qualifies when kidnapping or related offenses constitute a sex offense

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Crime Victims, Crime And Correction Committee

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2021-S2203 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §168-a, Cor L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S4568
2023-2024: S747
2025-2026: S2467

2021-S2203 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Qualifies when kidnapping or related offenses that are committed in furtherance of a sex crime will be considered a sex offense.

2021-S2203 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S2203 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2203
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 20, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by Sen. SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed  to  be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and
   Correction
 
 AN ACT to amend the correction  law,  in  relation  to  qualifying  when
   kidnapping or related offenses constitute a sex offense

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subparagraph (i) of  paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision  2  of
 section  168-a  of  the correction law, as amended by chapter 189 of the
 laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
   (i) a conviction of or a conviction for an attempt to  commit  any  of
 the  provisions  of  sections  120.70,  130.20,  130.25, 130.30, 130.40,
 130.45, 130.60, 230.34, 230.34-a, 250.50, 255.25, 255.26 and  255.27  or
 article  two  hundred  sixty-three  of the penal law, or section 135.05,
 135.10, 135.20 or 135.25 of such law relating  to  kidnapping  offenses,
 provided  the  victim of such kidnapping or related offense is less than
 seventeen years old and the offender is not the parent of the victim AND
 PROVIDED THE KIDNAPPING OR RELATED OFFENSE IS COMMITTED  IN  FURTHERANCE
 OF  A SEX CRIME AS DEFINED IN THIS ARTICLE, or section 230.04, where the
 person patronized is in fact less than seventeen years of  age,  230.05,
 230.06,  230.11,  230.12,  230.13,  subdivision  two  of section 230.30,
 section 230.32, 230.33, or 230.34 of the penal law, or section 230.25 of
 the penal law where the person prostituted is in fact less  than  seven-
 teen years old, or
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04457-01-1

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