STATE OF NEW YORK
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324--A
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY(Prefiled)
January 6, 2021
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Introduced by M. of A. ZEBROWSKI, ENGLEBRIGHT, CRUZ, BUTTENSCHON,
SAYEGH, J. RIVERA, COLTON, SIMON, STIRPE, TAYLOR, GALEF, DICKENS,
HYNDMAN, GRIFFIN, GLICK, WALLACE, WEPRIN, STECK, FALL, FERNANDEZ,
FAHY, HEVESI, ROZIC, LAVINE, LUPARDO, JOYNER, QUART, GOTTFRIED,
SEAWRIGHT, DINOWITZ, NIOU, ABINANTI, PAULIN -- Multi-Sponsored by --
M. of A. COOK, DE LA ROSA, NOLAN -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Codes -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to coercion in the third
degree
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The first undesignated paragraph of section 135.60 of the
2 penal law, as amended by section 1 of part NN of chapter 55 of the laws
3 of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
4 A person is guilty of coercion in the third degree when he or she
5 compels or induces a person to engage in conduct which the latter has a
6 legal right to abstain from engaging in, or to abstain from engaging in
7 conduct in which he or she has a legal right to engage, or compels or
8 induces a person to join a group, organization or criminal enterprise
9 which such latter person has a right to abstain from joining, or compels
10 or induces a person to produce, disseminate, or otherwise display an
11 image or images depicting nudity of such person or depicting such person
12 engaged in sexual conduct as defined in subdivisions two and three of
13 section 235.20 of this chapter, by means of instilling in him or her a
14 fear that, if the demand is not complied with, the actor or another
15 will:
16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
17 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04435-02-1