S 7351: Elevates promoting an obscene sexual performance by a child and promoting a sexual performance by a child to be class B felonies; prohibits pleading to a lesser offense after indictment for either such offense.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7351 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE April 10, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. LANZA, MURRAY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law and the criminal procedure law, in relation to promoting sexual performances by a child The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The closing paragraph of section 263.10 of the penal law, 2 as amended by chapter 1 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 Promoting an obscene sexual performance by a child is a class [D] B 5 felony. 6 § 2. The closing paragraph of section 263.15 of the penal law, as 7 amended by chapter 1 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows: 8 Promoting a sexual performance by a child is a class [D] B felony. 9 § 3. Subdivision 5 of section 220.10 of the criminal procedure law is 10 amended by adding a new paragraph (i) to read as follows: 11 (i) Where the indictment charges the class B felony offense of promot- 12 ing an obscene sexual performance by a child as defined in section 13 263.10 of the penal law or promoting a sexual performance by a child as 14 defined in section 263.15 of the penal law, then a plea of guilty must 15 include at least a plea to such offense. 16 § 4. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 17 ing the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD05590-01-5