STATE OF NEW YORK
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6182
2009-2010 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
February 26, 2009
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Introduced by M. of A. SCARBOROUGH, EDDINGTON, GREENE, REILLY, JOHN,
COLTON, ROBINSON -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. CHRISTENSEN,
DelMONTE, PHEFFER, SCHIMEL, TITONE, WEISENBERG -- read once and
referred to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to making the prostitution of
a child by a parent or guardian a class B felony
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 230.32 of the penal law, as added by chapter 627 of
2 the laws of 1978, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 230.32 Promoting prostitution in the first degree.
4 A person is guilty of promoting prostitution in the first degree when:
5 1. he or she knowingly advances or profits from prostitution of a
6 person less than eleven years old[.]; or
7 2. being a parent, guardian or other person legally charged with the
8 care and custody of a child less than eighteen years old, he or she
9 knowingly advances or profits from prostitution of such child.
10 Promoting prostitution in the first degree is a class B felony.
11 § 2. This act shall take effect the first of November next succeeding
12 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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