Includes instances of sexual conduct against a child less than seventeen years of age to certain sex offenses

Latest action Mar 4, 2026

Includes instances of sexual conduct against a child less than seventeen years of age to certain sex offenses; removes the time limit to bring subsequent sexual offenses.

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Where it stands

Passed one of the two chambers; it still needs the other.

Introduced
In committee
Up for a vote
Passed one chamber
Passed
Enacted

New York State Senate

Same as A490, the matching bill in the Assembly.

Amends the Penal Law.

Committee

Codes · New York State Assembly

Also referred to Codes · New York State Senate.

Purpose, from the sponsor's memo

To permit crimes of sexual conduct against a child in the first and second degrees and predatory sexual assault against a child to include all sexual conduct against a child committed prior to the child's seven- teenth birthday.

Filed with the bill. Read it on nysenate.gov (opens in a new tab)

Recorded votes

Vote: Floor vote
NY SenateMar 4, 2026Result: passed
(60) (0) (0) (3)
Vote: Committee vote · Codes
Senate CodesFeb 24, 2026Result: passed
(11) (0) (0) (2)
Vote: Floor vote
NY SenateApr 9, 2025Result: passed
(60) (0) (0) (3)
Vote: Committee vote · Codes
Senate CodesMar 25, 2025Result: passed
(12) (0) (0) (1)

Cosponsors

Dean Murray, George Borrello and 4 more on Agora

Republican4
Democratic2

See the full list on nysenate.gov

The sponsor's argument

Why Nathalia Fernandez says this is needed

Child victims of sexual abuse are often victimized by offenders repeat- edly over the course of many years throughout adolescence. Prosecutors routinely find victims' accounts of child sexual assault to be credible, yet are unable to bring charges because current statute dictates that a defendant cannot be charged for raping or sexually abusing a child after the child's eleventh or thirteenth birthday (depending upon which subdi- vision of the statutes is used) if the child is unable to provide a narrow time frame for the abuse. As a result, no felony sex charges can be brought; all that can be charged may be a misdemeanor count of endan- gering the welfare of a child to cover years of rapes, criminal sexual acts and other sexual abuse. This legislation will preclude victims from the emotionally devastating requirement to recall and testify the exact dates of all sex crimes committed against them when the acts are so numerous that no one could reasonably be expected to ascribe specific dates to each one. Second, prosecutors will no longer have to present judges, defendants and juries with complicated and cumbersome multi-count indictments involving dozens or hundreds of charges by allowing a single count of course of sexual conduct against a child or predatory sexual assault against a child to be charged to cover all sexual abuse through a victim's seventeenth birthday.

This is the sponsor's own case for the bill, quoted from their memorandum. It is not Agora's description of what the bill does.

Full history

Mar 4, 2026
Sent to the executive
DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
NY Senate
Mar 4, 2026
Passed a chamber
PASSED SENATE
NY Senate
Mar 4, 2026
Referred to committee
REFERRED TO CODES
NY Assembly
Feb 26, 2026
Advanced to Third Reading
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NY Senate
Feb 25, 2026
2ND Report CAL.
2ND REPORT CAL.
NY Senate

Show full history (12 earlier events)

Feb 24, 2026
1ST Report CAL.365
1ST REPORT CAL.365
NY Senate
Jan 7, 2026
Died in Assembly
DIED IN ASSEMBLY
NY Assembly
Jan 7, 2026
Referred to committee
REFERRED TO CODES
NY Assembly
Jan 7, 2026
Referred to committee
REFERRED TO CODES
NY Senate
Apr 9, 2025
Sent to the executive
DELIVERED TO ASSEMBLY
NY Senate
Apr 9, 2025
Passed a chamber
PASSED SENATE
NY Senate
Apr 9, 2025
Referred to committee
REFERRED TO CODES
NY Assembly
Mar 27, 2025
Advanced to Third Reading
ADVANCED TO THIRD READING
NY Senate
Mar 26, 2025
2ND Report CAL.
2ND REPORT CAL.
NY Senate
Mar 25, 2025
1ST Report CAL.611
1ST REPORT CAL.611
NY Senate
Jan 8, 2025
Referred to committee
REFERRED TO CODES
NY Assembly
Jan 8, 2025
Referred to committee
REFERRED TO CODES
NY Senate

About this record

Summary: The summary comes from NY Open Legislation, the New York State Senate's public record. For more, see How we handle summaries.
Cosponsors: The list shows the cosponsors who are on Agora, A to Z. The official record may list more.
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Source: From NY Open Legislation, the NY Senate and Assembly, and official rosters. This record was last updated Oct 29, 2026. About our data

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