Senate Bill S3171

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Establishes the crimes of sex trafficking of a vulnerable person and predatory sex trafficking

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Codes Committee


  • 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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2023-S3171 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A2528
Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §230.34-a, add §130.97, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A11375
2019-2020: A2369
2021-2022: S8583, A1411

2023-S3171 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the crimes of sex trafficking of a vulnerable person and predatory sex trafficking when a person intentionally advances or profits from prostitution of a vulnerable person.

2023-S3171 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S3171 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3171
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 30, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  CLEARE -- 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  sex  trafficking  of  a
   vulnerable person
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Section 230.34-a of the penal law, as added by chapter  189
 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
 § 230.34-a Sex trafficking of a child OR VULNERABLE PERSON.
   1.  A  person  is guilty of sex trafficking of a child when he or she,
 being twenty-one years old or more, intentionally  advances  or  profits
 from prostitution of another person and such person is a child less than
 eighteen  years old. Knowledge by the defendant of the age of such child
 is not an element of this offense and it is not a defense  to  a  prose-
 cution  therefor that the defendant did not know the age of the child or
 believed such age to be eighteen or over.
   2. A PERSON IS GUILTY OF SEX TRAFFICKING OF A VULNERABLE  PERSON  WHEN
 HE OR SHE INTENTIONALLY ADVANCES OR PROFITS FROM PROSTITUTION OF ANOTHER
 PERSON  AND  SUCH PERSON IS A VULNERABLE PERSON, AS SUCH TERM IS DEFINED
 IN THIS SECTION.
   3. For purposes of this section:
   (a) A person "advances prostitution" when,  acting  other  than  as  a
 person  in prostitution or as a patron thereof, and with intent to cause
 prostitution, he or she directly engages in conduct that facilitates  an
 act or enterprise of prostitution.
   (b)  A person "profits from prostitution" when, acting other than as a
 person in prostitution receiving compensation  for  personally  rendered
 prostitution services, and with intent to facilitate prostitution, he or
 she accepts or receives money or other property pursuant to an agreement
 or  understanding  with any person whereby he or she participates in the
 proceeds of prostitution activity.

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD05001-01-3
              

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