Relates to the definition of a sex offense; provides that if luring a child or the attempt thereto requires an actor to register as a sex offender, then the act is determined to be a sex offense.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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5796
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 3, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. SEPULVEDA, COMRIE, GOUNARDES -- read twice and
ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on
Crime Victims, Crime and Correction
AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the definition of a
sex offense
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of
2 section 168-a of the correction law, as amended by chapter 23 of the
3 laws of 2024, is amended to read as follows:
4 (i) a conviction of or a conviction for an attempt to commit any of
5 the provisions of sections 120.70, provided the underlying offense the
6 actor intended to commit constitutes an offense for which registration
7 as a sex offender is required pursuant to this article, 130.20, 130.25,
8 130.30, former section 130.40, former section 130.45, sections 130.60,
9 230.34, 230.34-a, 250.50, 255.25, 255.26 and 255.27 or article two
10 hundred sixty-three of the penal law, or section 135.05, 135.10, 135.20
11 or 135.25 of such law relating to kidnapping offenses, provided the
12 victim of such kidnapping or related offense is less than seventeen
13 years old and the offender is not the parent of the victim, or section
14 230.04, where the person patronized is in fact less than seventeen years
15 of age, 230.05, 230.06, 230.11, 230.12, 230.13, subdivision two of
16 section 230.30, section 230.32, 230.33, or 230.34 of the penal law, or
17 section 230.25 of the penal law where the person prostituted is in fact
18 less than seventeen years old, or
19 § 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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