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Provides for sentence of life without parole for defendants convicted of certain sex offenses against a child or mentally disabled person; repealer
In Assembly Committee · Codes · Sponsor Michael Cusick
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BILL NUMBER:S2300
Title of bill
An act to amend the penal law, in relation to making certain sex offenses committed against a child or a mentally disabled person class A-I felonies for which a sentence of life imprisonment without parole shall be imposed; and to repeal certain provisions of such law relating to sex offenses committed against children or the mentally disabled
Purpose
Provides for sentence of life without parole for defendants convicted of certain sex offenses against a child or mentally disabled person.
Summary of provisions
Section one amends section 60.06 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 482 of the laws of 2009.
Section two amends subdivision 5 of section 70.00 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 482 of the laws of 2009.
Section three repeals section 130.30 of the penal law.
Section four amends section 130.35 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 1 of the laws of 2000.
Section five amends the penal law by adding a new section 130.36: Aggravated Rape.
Section six repeals section 130-45 of the penal law.
Section seven amends section 130.50 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 264 of the laws of 2003.
Section eight amends the penal law by adding a new section 130.51: Aggravated Criminal Sexual Act.
Section nine amends the closing paragraph of section 130.75 of the penal law by making sexual conduct against a child in the first degree a class A-I felony.
Section ten repeals section 130.96 of the penal law.
Section eleven is an effective date of November 1.
Justification
This bill provides for the sentence of life without parole for defendants convicted of certain sex offenses against a child or mentally disabled person. Sex crimes against children and the mentally disabled are intolerable acts that society should not put up with. This measure would require those convicted of such crimes the inability to receive parole. This bill would keep these criminals out of our neighborhoods so they cannot harm our children and the mentally disabled again.
Legislative history
2012: S.4118 - Referred to Codes/A.6678 - Referred to Codes 2011: S.4118 - Referred to Codes/A.6678 - Referred to Codes
Fiscal implications
None.
Effective date
This act shall take effect on the first November next succeeding the date on which it shall have become a law and shall apply to offenses committed on or after such effective date.
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