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Assembly Bill A1140

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the definition of consent

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2025-A1140 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S5521
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §10.00, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A6540, S6200
2023-2024: A7523, S4196

2025-A1140 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Adds the definition of consent to the terms of general use; defines it as a freely given, knowledgeable and informed agreement by a person with the capacity to reason.

2025-A1140 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1140
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              January 9, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SEAWRIGHT, STECK, JACKSON, McMAHON, BURDICK,
   WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the definition of consent
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Section 10.00 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 23 to read as follows:
   23. "CONSENT" MEANS A FREELY GIVEN, KNOWLEDGEABLE AND INFORMED  AGREE-
 MENT BY A PERSON WITH THE CAPACITY TO REASON.
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01030-01-5

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