Bill Text: NY A06355 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases the age from sixteen to eighteen for the defense of infancy.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-01-04 - referred to codes [A06355 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A06355-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6355
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                    March 15, 2011
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  O'DONNELL  --  read once and referred to the
         Committee on Codes
       AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to increasing the  applicable
         age for the defense of infancy
         THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 30.00 of the penal law, as amended
    2  by chapter 481 of the laws of 1978, is amended to read as follows:
    3    1. Except as provided in subdivision two of  this  section,  a  person
    4  less than [sixteen] EIGHTEEN years old is not criminally responsible for
    5  conduct.
    6    S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    7  it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD10117-01-1