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New York- Each year, New York lawmakers are asked to consider a new crop of proposed laws addressing the “sexual performance of a child.” Often, the target is the nudity of children. Many of those sorts of bills ignore the state’s own “harmful to minors” provision. NAC monitors each bill carefully, stepping in where necessary to offer substitute language for poorly constructed legislation. (For an example of NAC’s intervention, see S 224 and A 1174 from 2007.) For another sort of New York legislation NAC faced in 2011, consider A 290, which proposed a two dollar surcharge on the purchase of sexually oriented media. As defined by the bill, media is "sexually oriented” if it includes nude images. A 290 has not advanced. NAC expects both the sexual per-formance and the publication surcharge sorts of legislation in the 2012 session.