New York S 456: Relates to expanding the definition of a sex offense

Status: REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION (as of 2026-01-07)

State: New York · Session: 2025-2026 · Bill: S 456

Sponsors: Anthony H. Palumbo

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S00456 Summary:

BILL NOS00456 

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SAME ASSAME AS A05722

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SPONSORPALUMBO

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Amd §168-a, Cor L

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Expands the definition of a sex offense to include sexually motivated felonies.

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01/08/2025REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 456

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. PALUMBO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Crime Victims, Crime and
 Correction

 AN ACT to amend the correction law, in relation to the definition of a
 sex offense

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

 1 Section 1. Subparagraph (i) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of
 2 section 168-a of the correction law, as amended by chapter 23 of the
 3 laws of 2024, is amended to read as follows:
 4 (i) a conviction of or a conviction for an attempt to commit any of
 5 the provisions of sections 120.70, 130.20, 130.25, 130.30, former
 6 section 130.40, former section 130.45, sections 130.60, 230.34,
 7 230.34-a, 250.50, 255.25, 255.26 and 255.27 or article two hundred
 8 sixty-three of the penal law, or section 135.05, 135.10, 135.20 or
 9 135.25 of such law relating to kidnapping offenses, provided the victim
 10 of such kidnapping or related offense is less than seventeen years old
 11 and the offender is not the parent of the victim, or for a sexually
 12 motivated felony pursuant to section 130.91, or section 230.04, where
 13 the person patronized is in fact less than seventeen years of age,
 14 230.05, 230.06, 230.11, 230.12, 230.13, subdivision two of section
 15 230.30, section 230.32, 230.33, or 230.34 of the penal law, or section
 16 230.25 of the penal law where the person prostituted is in fact less
 17 than seventeen years old, or
 18 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 19 have become a law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01613-01-5

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