Assembly Bill A8956

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Excludes any time during which a person was incarcerated from the ten year period relevant to the definition of the crime of persistent sexual abuse

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  • Introduced
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    • In Committee Senate
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    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
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2011-A8956 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6129
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §130.53, Pen L
Versions Introduced in 2013-2014 Legislative Session:
A2711, S612

2011-A8956 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Excludes any time during which a person was incarcerated from the ten year period relevant to the definition of the crime of persistent sexual abuse.

2011-A8956 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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    S. 6129                                                  A. 8956

                      S E N A T E - A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 4, 2012
                               ___________

IN  SENATE  --  Introduced  by  Sen.  GIANARIS -- read twice and ordered
  printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes

IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. SIMOTAS -- read once and  referred
  to the Committee on Codes

AN  ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to excluding any time during
  which a person was incarcerated from the ten year period  relevant  to
  the definition of the crime of persistent sexual abuse

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1.  Section 130.53 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 264
of the laws of 2003, is amended to read as follows:
S 130.53 Persistent sexual abuse.
  A person is guilty of persistent sexual abuse when he or  she  commits
the  crime  of  forcible  touching, as defined in section 130.52 of this
article, sexual abuse in the third degree, as defined in section  130.55
of  this  article,  or  sexual abuse in the second degree, as defined in
section 130.60 of this article, and, within the previous ten year  peri-
od, EXCLUDING ANY TIME DURING WHICH SUCH PERSON WAS INCARCERATED FOR ANY
REASON, has been convicted two or more times, in separate criminal tran-
sactions for which sentence was imposed on separate occasions, of forci-
ble touching, as defined in section 130.52 of this article, sexual abuse
in the third degree as defined in section 130.55 of this article, sexual
abuse  in  the second degree, as defined in section 130.60 of this arti-
cle, or any offense defined in this article, of which the commission  or
attempted commission thereof is a felony.
  Persistent sexual abuse is a class E felony.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
ing the date on which it shall have become a law.


 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD13698-01-2

              

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