STATE OF NEW YORK
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6200--A
2021-2022 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
April 15, 2021
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Introduced by Sen. SANDERS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed 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 the definition of consent
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 10.00 of the penal law is amended by adding a new
2 subdivision 22 to read as follows:
3 22. "Consent" means a freely given, knowledgeable and informed agree-
4 ment.
5 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
6 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09851-07-1
