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Senate Bill S8609

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Enacts the "victims protection and child sex buyer accountability act"

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2025-S8609 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A9214
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§230.05, 230.06, 230.11, 230.32 & 230.33, Pen L

2025-S8609 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enacts the "victims protection and child sex buyer accountability act" relating to increasing the age of victims of the patronizing, promoting, and compelling of prostitution.

2025-S8609 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8609
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             December 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MYRIE  -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 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.
                                                            LBD13861-01-5

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