STATE OF NEW YORK
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1855
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 16, 2019
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Introduced by Sen. HOYLMAN -- 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 removing a certain time
period for the crime of persistent sexual abuse
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 130.53 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 192
2 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
3 § 130.53 Persistent sexual abuse.
4 A person is guilty of persistent sexual abuse when he or she commits
5 the crime of forcible touching, as defined in section 130.52 of this
6 article, sexual abuse in the third degree, as defined in section 130.55
7 of this article, or sexual abuse in the second degree, as defined in
8 section 130.60 of this article, and[, within the previous ten year peri-
9 od, excluding any time during which such person was incarcerated for any
10 reason,] has been convicted two or more times, in separate criminal
11 transactions for which sentence was imposed on separate occasions, of
12 forcible touching, as defined in section 130.52 of this article, sexual
13 abuse in the third degree as defined in section 130.55 of this article,
14 sexual abuse in the second degree, as defined in section 130.60 of this
15 article, or any offense defined in this article, of which the commission
16 or attempted commission thereof is a felony.
17 Persistent sexual abuse is a class E felony.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
19 ing the date on which this act shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03329-01-9
