STATE OF NEW YORK
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5660
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 3, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. HOOPER -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. COLTON,
ORTIZ, SCARBOROUGH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to increasing the penalty for
unlawfully dealing with a child in the first degree to a class E felo-
ny
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The closing paragraph of section 260.20 of the penal law,
2 as amended by chapter 362 of the laws of 1992, is amended to read as
3 follows:
4 Unlawfully dealing with a child in the first degree is a class [A
5 misdemeanor] E felony.
6 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
7 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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