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Designates promoting prostitution in the first degree, compelling prostitution and sex trafficking as class B violent felonies
In Assembly Committee · Codes · Sponsor Francisco Moya
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BILL NUMBER:S128
Title of bill
An act to amend the penal law, in relation to designating promoting prostitution in the first degree, compelling prostitution and sex trafficking as class B violent felony offenses and the prostitution of minors
Purpose
Designates promoting prostitution in the first degree, compelling prostitution and sex trafficking as class B violent felonies and amends promoting prostitution in the first degree to include victims older than eleven years old but younger than sixteen years old.
Summary of provisions
Section 1 amends paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section 70.02 of the penal law to include promoting prostitution in the first degree as defined by section 230.32, compelling prostitution as defined by section 230.33, and sex trafficking as defined in section 230.34 within the list of violent B felonies.
Section 2 and section 3 amend sections 230.30 and 230.32 of the penal law to raise promoting the prostitution of persons age eleven to sixteen from a C to a B felony.
Justification
There are few crimes more abhorrent than forcing a helpless person into the sex trade against his or her will. While New York State's sex trafficking laws are among the most comprehensive in the nation, the current law does not reflect the inherent violence of sex trafficking, compelled prostitution or advancing the prostitution of a child. These crimes share the explicit violence of force and the implicit violence of compulsion and restraint. Categorizing them as violent felonies for the purpose of sentencing would simply reflect their true nature and gravity.
Legislative history
2011-12: S.5919
Fiscal implications
No fiscal implications.
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law and shall apply to offenses committed on or after such date.
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