STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2458 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY January 17, 2025 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. COLTON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to making incest a class B felony The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The second undesignated paragraph of section 255.25 of the 2 penal law, as amended by chapter 777 of the laws of 2023, is amended to 3 read as follows: 4 Incest in the third degree is a class [E] B felony. 5 § 2. The second undesignated paragraph of section 255.26 of the penal 6 law, as added by chapter 23 of the laws of 2024, is amended to read as 7 follows: 8 Incest in the second degree is a class [D] B felony. 9 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 10 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. LBD05934-01-5