STATE OF NEW YORK
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4009
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
January 30, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. GONZALEZ-ROJAS -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to increasing the penalties
for sex trafficking
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The closing paragraph of section 230.34 of the penal law,
2 as added by chapter 74 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 Sex trafficking is a [class B] class A-II felony.
5 § 2. The closing paragraph of section 230.34-a of the penal law, as
6 added by chapter 189 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
7 Sex trafficking of a child is a [class B] class A-II felony.
8 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
9 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.
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