S54 (2025-26 session)
NY State bill
Prohibits the use of intoxication of the victim as a defense in sex crimes where the victim is under the extreme influence of any substance which renders them incapable of appraising or controlling such victim's conduct and incapable of clearly expressing lack of consent.
- Title
- Prohibits the use of intoxication of the victim as a defense in sex crimes
- Type
- New York State Senate bill
- Session
- 2025-26 session
- Status
- In Assembly Committee
- Latest action date
- 2026-04-28
- In committee
- Codes
- Introduced
- 2024-12-17
- Active version
- S54A
- Law section
- Penal Law
Sponsors
- Nathalia Fernandez State Senator, District 34
Co-sponsors
- Andrew Gounardes State Senator, District 26
Heard in committee
Committee meetings
Committee meetings that took this bill up, from the Senate's published agendas. The Assembly does not publish its committee agendas in machine-readable form, so an Assembly committee's consideration of a bill is not on this list.
- Codes, 2026-01-28 First reading
- Codes, 2025-03-10 First reading