Prohibits possession of an image of a minor victim by child sex offenders and prohibits any other person from disseminating to such person any image of a child victim of such sex offense.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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6021--B
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
May 10, 2017
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Introduced by Sen. JACOBS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes -- recommitted to
the Committee on Codes in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
recommitted to said committee -- committee discharged, bill amended,
ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to prohibiting child sex
offenders from possessing images of their victims
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 263.35 to
2 read as follows:
3 § 263.35 Criminal possession of an image of a minor victim.
4 A person is guilty of criminal possession of an image of a minor
5 victim when he or she:
6 1. has been convicted of a sex offense as defined in subdivision two
7 or three of section one hundred sixty-eight-a of the correction law,
8 where the victim of such offense was a minor, and such person has
9 possession of one or more images, recordings, or any other depictions of
10 the victim or victims of such sex offense; or
11 2. knowingly disseminates to a person convicted of a sex offense as
12 defined in subdivision two or three of section one hundred sixty-eight-a
13 of the correction law, where the victim of such offense was a minor, one
14 or more images, recordings, or any other depictions of the victim or
15 victims of such sex offense.
16 Criminal possession of an image of a minor victim is a class E felony.
17 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
18 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.
LBD10706-09-8
