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History
- Signed chap.215
- Delivered to governor
- Returned to senate
- Passed assembly
- Ordered to third reading rules cal.498
- Substituted for A8026
- Referred to codes
- Delivered to assembly
- Passed senateVote 62–0
- Ordered to third reading cal.1345
- Committee discharged and committed to rules
- Referred to codes
Companion bill
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Relates to the crime of promoting prostitution in the fourth degree
Assembly Floor Calendar · Sponsor Francisco Moya
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Sponsor's memo
BILL NUMBER:S5623
Title of bill
An act to amend the penal law, in relation to the crime of promoting prostitution in the fourth degree
Purpose
This bill will specifically add the distribution of obscene material or material that depicts nudity to more than 10 people in a public place with the intent to advance or profit from prostitution to the current penal law which prohibits the promotion of prostitution in the fourth degree.
Summary of provisions
Section 1 amends section 230.20 of the penal law, promoting prostitution in the fourth degree, by adding "or with the intent to advance or profit from prostitution, distributes or disseminates to ten or more people in a public place obscene material, as such terms are defined by subdivisions one and two of section 235.00 of this title, or material that depicts nudity, as such term is defined by subdivision one of section 245.10 of this part."
Justification
The distribution of business-size cards with images of scantily clad and/or naked men and/or women are common along the street of Roosevelt Avenue in Queens. These cards affect the quality of life in the neighborhood, but they are also indicative of a larger issue; the sex trade industry.
This bill will amend the existing law on promoting prostitution to explicitly include the distribution obscene material to 10 or more people in a public space with the intent to advance or profit from prostitution as a form of promoting prostitution and a fourth degree misdemeanor.
This is the first step toward cleaning up Roosevelt Avenue and towards stopping the cycle of exploitation in the sex trade industry that is spilling into the streets of Queens.
Prior legislative history
New bill.
Fiscal implications
None.
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after it shall become a law.
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