S3207-2011 Actions

• Jan 30, 2012: referred to codes
• Jan 30, 2012: DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
• Jan 30, 2012: PASSED SENATE
• Jan 23, 2012: ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
• Jan 19, 2012: 2ND REPORT CAL.
• Jan 18, 2012: 1ST REPORT CAL.61
• Jan 4, 2012: REFERRED TO CODES
• Jan 4, 2012: returned to senate
• Jan 4, 2012: died in assembly
• Apr 6, 2011: referred to codes
• Apr 5, 2011: DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
• Apr 5, 2011: PASSED SENATE
• Mar 10, 2011: ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
• Mar 9, 2011: 2ND REPORT CAL.
• Mar 8, 2011: 1ST REPORT CAL.177
• Feb 11, 2011: REFERRED TO CODES

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BILL NUMBER:S3207

TITLE OF BILL:
An act
to amend the penal law, in relation to the commission of aggravated
sexual abuse

PURPOSE:
To provide that a person is guilty of the crimes of aggravated sexual
abuse in the first, second or third degree when the victim is less
than 13 years of age and the actor is 18 years of age or older.

SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:
Section 1 of the bill amends paragraph (c) of Subdivision 1 of section
130.66 of the Penal Law by adding a new provision to aggravated
sexual abuse in the third degree. Under the new provision, a person
is guilty of the crime when he inserts a foreign object in the
vagina, urethra, penis, or rectum of another person who is less than
thirteen years old and the actor is eighteen years old or older.

Section 2 of the bill amends paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section
130.67 by adding a new provision to aggravated sexual abuse in the
second degree to provide that a person is guilty of the crime when he
inserts a finger in the vagina, urethra, penis, or rectum of a person
who is less than thirteen years old and causes physical injury to
that person and the actor is eighteen years old or older.

Section 3 of the bill amends paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section
130.70 by adding a new provision to aggravated sexual abuse in the
first degree to provide that a person is guilty of the crime when he
inserts a foreign object in the vagina, urethra, penis, or rectum of
another person who is less than thirteen years old and causes injury
to that person and the actor is eighteen years old or older.

EXISTING LAW:
Under the current law, a defendant may be found guilty of these
offenses if the crime was committed by forcible compulsion, or the
victim was physically helpless or the victim was under the age of 11
years.

JUSTIFICATION:
Prior to the enactment of the Sexual Assault Reform Act of 2000
(SARA), a person was guilty of the strict liability provisions of
rape or sodomy in the first degree when he or she engaged in sexual
intercourse or anal or oral sexual intercourse with a person who was
less than eleven. In amending those provisions so that a person over
the age of eighteen would be guilty of those crimes when the victim
was less than thirteen, SARA served to better protect more children
from acts of sexual violence by bringing eleven and twelve year olds
under its provisions. However, SARA did not make a similar change in
the age threshold for the crimes of aggravated sexual assault in the
first, second and third degree. This bill would correct the oversight
in SARA by amending the provisions of aggravated sexual abuse in the
first, second and third degrees, to
increase the victim age threshold for these strict liability crimes
from less than eleven to less than thirteen years old.


LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
2003:    Passed Senate
2004:    Passed Senate/Assembly Codes Committee
2005-06: S.3841 Passed Senate/A.6912 Assembly Codes Cmte.
2007-08: S.3841 Passed Senate/A.6912 Assembly Codes Cmte.
2009-10: S.3238 Codes Cmte./A.7928 Codes Cmte.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None.

LOCAL FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None.

EFFECTIVE DATE:
This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeeding
the date on which it shall become a law.

S3207-2011 Text

 S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 
 
                                         3207
 2011-2012 Regular Sessions
 I N  SENATE
 February 11, 2011
 
 Introduced  by Sen. FLANAGAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
 

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the commission  of  aggra
 vated sexual abuse
 

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

 

Section 1.  Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section  130.66  of  the
 penal law, as amended by chapter 485 of the laws of 2009, is amended and
 a new paragraph (d) is added to read as follows:

 (c) When the other person is less than eleven years old[.]; OR
 (D)  WHEN  THE  OTHER  PERSON  IS LESS THAN THIRTEEN YEARS OLD AND THE
 ACTOR IS EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD OR OLDER.
 

S 2. Paragraph (c) of subdivision 1 of section  130.67  of  the  penal
 law,  as  added by chapter 450 of the laws of 1988, is amended and a new
 paragraph (d) is added to read as follows:

 (c) When the other person is less than eleven years old[.]; OR
 (D) WHEN THE OTHER PERSON IS LESS THAN  THIRTEEN  YEARS  OLD  AND  THE
 ACTOR IS EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD OR OLDER.
 

S  3.  Paragraph  (c)  of subdivision 1 of section 130.70 of the penal
 law, as amended by chapter 450 of the laws of 1988, is amended and a new
 paragraph (d) is added to read as follows:

 (c) When the other person is less than eleven years old[.]; OR
 (D) WHEN THE OTHER PERSON IS LESS THAN  THIRTEEN  YEARS  OLD  AND  THE
 ACTOR IS EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD OR OLDER.
 

S 4. 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.
 LBD08455-01-1

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