New York A 9214: Enacts the "victims protection and child sex buyer accountability act"

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A09214 Summary:

BILL NOA09214A

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SAME ASSAME AS S08609-A

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SPONSORPaulin

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COSPNSRDinowitz, Hevesi, Rozic, Lavine, Reyes, Solages, Rosenthal, Cruz, Glick, Magnarelli, Santabarbara,
 Otis, DeStefano, Brown K, McDonough

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §§230.05, 230.06, 230.11, 230.32 & 230.33, Pen L

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Enacts the "victims protection and child sex buyer accountability act" relating to increasing the age of victims of the patronizing, promoting, and compelling of prostitution.

Go to top A09214 Actions:

BILL NOA09214A

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11/03/2025referred to codes

01/07/2026referred to codes

02/19/2026amend and recommit to codes

02/19/2026print number 9214a

06/04/2026reference changed to ways and means

06/05/2026reported referred to rules

06/05/2026reported 

06/05/2026rules report cal.574

06/05/2026ordered to third reading rules cal.574

06/05/2026substituted by s8609a

&nbspS08609 AMEND=A MYRIE

&nbsp12/08/2025REFERRED TO RULES

&nbsp01/07/2026REFERRED TO CODES

&nbsp01/28/20261ST REPORT CAL.205

&nbsp01/29/20262ND REPORT CAL.

&nbsp02/03/2026ADVANCED TO THIRD READING 

&nbsp02/25/2026AMENDED ON THIRD READING 8609A

&nbsp06/04/2026PASSED SENATE

&nbsp06/04/2026DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY

&nbsp06/04/2026referred to codes

&nbsp06/05/2026substituted for a9214a

&nbsp06/05/2026ordered to third reading rules cal.574

&nbsp06/05/2026passed assembly

&nbsp06/05/2026returned to senate

Go to topA09214 Committee&nbspVotes:

Committee:WAYS AND MEANS Chair:Pretlow 
DATE:06/05/2026AYE/NAY:31/0 Action: Favorable refer to committee Rules PretlowAyePalmesanoAye

GlickAyeFitzpatrickAye

ColtonAyeHawleyAye

CookExcusedBlankenbushAye

BenedettoAyeWalshAye

WeprinAyeDeStefanoExcused

RamosAyeManktelowAye

BraunsteinAyeSmullenExcused

McDonaldAyeGiglioAye

RozicAyeSlaterAye

DinowitzAye

MagnarelliAye

BronsonAye

DilanAbsent

SeawrightAye

HyndmanAye

WalkerAye

Bichotte HermelAye

SimonAye

CruzAye

OtisAye

SolagesAye

HunterAye

SeptimoAye

HevesiAye

Committee:RULES Chair:Glick 
DATE:06/05/2026AYE/NAY:29/0 Action: Favorable HeastieExcusedRaAye

PretlowAyeHawleyAye

CookExcusedBlankenbushAye

GlickAyeBrabenecAye

DinowitzAyePalmesanoAye

ColtonAyeReillyAye

MagnarelliAyeSmithAye

PaulinAyeJensenAye

Peoples-StokesAyeGandolfoAye

BenedettoAye

LavineAye

LupardoAye

BraunsteinAye

DavilaAye

HyndmanAye

RozicAye

BronsonAye

HevesiAye

HunterAye

TaylorAye

CruzAye

VanelAye

Go to topA09214 Floor&nbspVotes:

There are no Assembly votes for this bill in this legislative session.

Go to topA09214 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 9214--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 November 3, 2025
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 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Codes -- recommitted to the Committee on Codes in accordance with
 Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
 reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to enacting the "victims
 protection and child sex buyer accountability act"

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

 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 2 the "victims protection and child sex buyer accountability act".
 3 § 2. The first undesignated paragraph of section 230.05 of the penal
 4 law, as amended by chapter 368 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read
 5 as follows:
 6 A person is guilty of patronizing a person for prostitution in the
 7 second degree when, being eighteen years old or more, [he or she] such
 8 person patronizes a person for prostitution and the person patronized is
 9 less than [fifteen] eighteen years old.
 10 § 3. Subdivisions 1 and 2 of section 230.06 of the penal law, as
 11 amended by chapter 368 of the laws of 2015, are amended to read as
 12 follows:
 13 1. [He or she] Such person patronizes a person for prostitution and
 14 the person patronized is less than eleven years old; or
 15 2. Being eighteen years old or more, [he or she] such person patron-
 16 izes a person for prostitution and the person patronized is less than
 17 [thirteen] fifteen years old.
 18 § 4. The first undesignated paragraph of section 230.11 of the penal
 19 law, as amended by