Provides a person is guilty of facilitating female genitalia mutilation when such person intentionally aids the commission or attempted commission of a person circumcising, excising or infibulating female genitalia of a person less than 18 years old.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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3484--A
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 10, 2015
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Introduced by Sens. LANZA, PANEPINTO -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes -- recom-
mitted to the Committee on Codes in accordance with Senate Rule 6,
sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as
amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to facilitating female geni-
tal mutilation
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 260.22 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 260.22 Facilitating female genital mutilation.
4 A person is guilty of facilitating female genital mutilation when,
5 knowing that a person intends to engage in the circumcising, excising or
6 infibulating of the whole or any part of the labia majora or labia mino-
7 ra or clitoris of a person under eighteen years of age, and except as
8 provided in subdivision two of section 130.85 of this chapter, he or she
9 intentionally aids the commission or attempted commission of such
10 conduct.
11 Facilitating female genital mutilation is a class A misdemeanor.
12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
13 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD00542-05-6
