NY S03831

Removes the ten-year lookback period for charging someone with persistent sexual abuse, allowing prior convictions from any time period to count toward the charge

Currently, only convictions within the previous ten years (excluding incarceration time) can be used to establish a pattern of persistent sexual abuse

Persistent sexual abuse applies when a person commits forcible touching, third-degree sexual abuse, or second-degree sexual abuse and has two or more prior convictions for similar offenses

Persistent sexual abuse remains classified as a Class E felony

Would take effect on the first of November following enactment