New York A 1919: Establishes the crimes of sex trafficking of a vulnerable person and predatory sex trafficking

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A01919 Summary:

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Establishes the crimes of sex trafficking of a vulnerable person and predatory sex trafficking when a person intentionally advances or profits from prostitution of a vulnerable person.

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01/14/2025referred to codes

01/07/2026referred to codes

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 1919

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 14, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. HEVESI -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Codes

 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to sex trafficking of a
 vulnerable person

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Section 230.34-a of the penal law, as added by chapter 189
 2 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows:
 3 § 230.34-a Sex trafficking of a child or vulnerable person.
 4 1. A person is guilty of sex trafficking of a child when [he or she]
 5 such person, being twenty-one years old or more, intentionally advances
 6 or profits from prostitution of another person and such person is a
 7 child less than eighteen years old. Knowledge by the defendant of the
 8 age of such child is not an element of this offense and it is not a
 9 defense to a prosecution therefor that the defendant did not know the
 10 age of the child or believed such age to be eighteen or over.
 11 2. A person is guilty of sex trafficking of a vulnerable person when
 12 he or she intentionally advances or profits from prostitution of another
 13 person and such person is a vulnerable person, as such term is defined
 14 in this section.
 15 3. For purposes of this section:
 16 (a) A person "advances prostitution" when, acting other than as a
 17 person in prostitution or as a patron thereof, and with intent to cause
 18 prostitution, [he or she] such person directly engages in conduct that
 19 facilitates an act or enterprise of prostitution.
 20 (b) A person "profits from prostitution" when, acting other than as a
 21 person in prostitution receiving compensation for personally rendered
 22 prostitution services, and with intent to facilitate prostitution, [he
 23 or she] such person accepts or receives money or other property pursuant
 24 to an agreement or understanding with any person whereby [he or she]
 25 such person participates in the proceeds of prostitution activity.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD03011-01-5

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 1 (c) A person is a "vulnerable person" when such person is mentally
 2 disabled, mentally incapacitated, or physically helpless, as such terms
 3 are defined in section 130.00 of this part.
 4 Sex trafficking of a child or vulnerable person is a class B felony.
 5 § 2. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 130.97 to read
 6 as follows:
 7 § 130.97 Predatory sex trafficking.
 8 A person is guilty of predatory sex trafficking when, being eighteen
 9 years old or more, such person commits the crime of sex trafficking of a
 10 child or vulnerable person.
 11 Predatory sex trafficking is a class A-II felony.
 12 § 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 13 have become a law.

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