Specifies that a person convicted of prostitution, or a person whose participation in the offense is determined by a court to be a result of having been a victim of sex trafficking is excluded from the definition of designated offender.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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118--B
Cal. No. 190
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 6, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, GOTTFRIED, PICHARDO, OTIS -- read once
and referred to the Committee on Codes -- committee discharged, bill
amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
tee -- reported from committee, advanced to a third reading, amended
and ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third read-
ing
AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to the definition of
designated offender
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 995 of the executive law, as
2 amended by chapter 92 of the laws of 2021, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 7. "Designated offender" means a person convicted of any felony
5 defined in any chapter of the laws of the state or any misdemeanor
6 defined in the penal law except: (a) a person convicted of prostitution
7 under section 230.00 of the penal law, or (b) a person whose partic-
8 ipation in the offense is determined by a court to have been a result of
9 having been a victim of sex trafficking under section 230.34 of the
10 penal law, sex trafficking of a child under section 230.34-a of the
11 penal law, or trafficking in persons under the trafficking victims
12 protection act (United States Code, Title 22, Chapter 78).
13 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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