Includes within the class B felony of promoting prostitution in the first degree, the knowing advancement or profiting from the prostitution of a child less than 17 years old by such child's parent, guardian or other person charged with the custody and care of the child.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 4, 2017
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Introduced by Sens. GOLDEN, YOUNG -- read twice and ordered printed, and
when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to including within the
offense of promoting prostitution in the first degree, the prostitu-
tion of a child by a parent, guardian or person charged with the care
and custody of the child
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, the opening paragraph and subdivisions 1 and 2 as
3 amended by chapter 368 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as
4 follows:
5 § 230.32 Promoting prostitution in the first degree.
6 A person is guilty of promoting prostitution in the first degree when
7 he or she:
8 1. knowingly advances or profits from prostitution of a person less
9 than thirteen years old; or
10 2. being twenty-one years old or more, he or she knowingly advances or
11 profits from prostitution of a person less than fifteen years old[.]; or
12 3. being the parent, guardian or other person legally charged with the
13 care and custody of a child less than seventeen years old, he or she
14 knowingly advances or profits from prostitution of such child.
15 Promoting prostitution in the first degree is a class B felony.
16 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
17 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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