Assembly Bill A9214

                             
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                                   9214
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             November 3, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  penal law, in relation to enacting the "victims
   protection and child sex buyer accountability act"
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Short  title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 the "victims protection and child sex buyer accountability act".
   § 2. The first undesignated paragraph of section 230.05 of  the  penal
 law,  as  amended by chapter 368 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read
 as follows:
   A person is guilty of patronizing a person  for  prostitution  in  the
 second  degree  when, being eighteen years old or more, [he or she] SUCH
 PERSON patronizes a person for prostitution and the person patronized is
 less than [fifteen] EIGHTEEN years old.
   § 3. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section  230.06  of  the  penal  law,  as
 amended  by  chapter  368  of  the  laws of 2015, are amended to read as
 follows:
   1. [He or she] SUCH PERSON patronizes a person  for  prostitution  and
 the person patronized is less than eleven years old; or
   2.  Being  eighteen years old or more, [he or she] SUCH PERSON patron-
 izes a person for prostitution and the person patronized  is  less  than
 [thirteen] FIFTEEN years old.
   §  4.  The first undesignated paragraph of section 230.11 of the penal
 law, as added by chapter 368 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read  as
 follows:
   A  person is guilty of aggravated patronizing a minor for prostitution
 in the third degree when, being twenty-one years old  or  more,  [he  or
 she]  SUCH  PERSON  patronizes  a person for prostitution and the person
 patronized is less than [seventeen] EIGHTEEN years old  and  the  person
 guilty  of  patronizing  engages  in vaginal sexual contact, oral sexual

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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 contact, anal sexual contact, or  aggravated  sexual  contact  as  those
 terms  are  defined  in  section  130.00  of  this part, with the person
 patronized.
   §  5.  Section 230.32 of the penal law, as added by chapter 627 of the
 laws of 1978, the opening paragraph and subdivisions 1 and 2 as  amended
 by chapter 368 of the laws of 2015,  is amended to read as follows:
 § 230.32 Promoting prostitution in the first degree.
   A  person is guilty of promoting prostitution in the first degree when
 [he or she:
   1. knowingly advances or profits from prostitution of  a  person  less
 than thirteen years old; or
   2. being twenty-one years old or more, he or she] SUCH PERSON knowing-
 ly  advances  or profits from prostitution of a person less than fifteen
 years old.
   Promoting prostitution in the first degree is a class B felony.
   § 6. The first undesignated paragraph of section 230.33 of  the  penal
 law,  as  amended by chapter 368 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read
 as follows:
   A person is guilty of compelling  prostitution  when,  being  eighteen
 years  old or more, [he or she] SUCH PERSON knowingly advances prostitu-
 tion by compelling a person less than eighteen years old  TO  ENGAGE  IN
 PROSTITUTION, WHETHER by force [or], intimidation, [to engage in prosti-
 tution]  DECEPTION, MANIPULATION, COERCION, ABUSE OF TRUST OR AUTHORITY,
 OR BY EXPLOITING A POSITION OF POWER, DEPENDENCY, OR EMOTIONAL CONTROL.
   § 7. This act shall take effect immediately.