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Senate Bill S4510
2015-2016 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP, RFM) 24th Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Codes Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2015-S4510 (ACTIVE) - Details
2015-S4510 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S4510 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the penal law, in relation to public lewdness in the first degree PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: Creates public lewdness in the second degree, a class A misdemeanor SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 245.03 of the Penal law is ameded. JUSTIFICATION: Public lewdness involves intentionally exposing the private or intimate parts of one's body in a lewd manner in a public place or in a private place under circumstances in which he may be readily to be observed. Public lewdness offenses can lead to serious consequences and cause enduring trauma for those who find themselves victim to it. Offenders often aim their public lewdness at minors and at women, and law enforcement officials have indicated that perpetrators often have a long history of such acts and of other sex crimes. Therefore, it is important to appropriately punish and deter serial offenders with higher penalties for multiple offenses of public lewdness. Right now, under state law public lewdness is only a B misdemeanor, regardless of
2015-S4510 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 4510 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E March 25, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- 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 public lewdness in the first degree THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 245.03 of the penal law, as added by chapter 186 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows: 2. he or she commits the crime of public lewdness, as defined in section 245.00 of this article, and [within the preceding year] has been convicted of [an offense defined in] such [section 245.00] CRIME or OF A VIOLATION OF this section WITHIN THE PRECEDING THREE YEARS. 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. LBD01697-01-5
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