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Senate Bill S2467

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Qualifies when kidnapping or related offenses constitute a sex offense

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Crime Victims, Crime And Correction Committee

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2025-S2467 (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
2021-2022: S2203
2023-2024: S747

2025-S2467 (ACTIVE) - Summary

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

2025-S2467 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S2467 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2467
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 21, 2025
                                ___________
 
 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 23 of the
 laws of 2024, 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, former
 section  130.40,  former  section  130.45,  sections   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 seventeen
 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.
                                                            LBD06453-01-5

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