Bill Text: NY A10066 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Designates crimes of manslaughter as class A-1 felonies when a defendant recklessly or with the intent to cause physical injury causes the death of a child.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-02 - referred to codes [A10066 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10066-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10066

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                       May 2, 2024
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in  relation  to  designating  crimes  of
          manslaughter that result in the death of a child class A-1 felonies

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subdivision 4 and the closing paragraph of  section  125.20
     2  of  the  penal law, subdivision 4 as added by chapter 477 of the laws of
     3  1990, are amended to read as follows:
     4    4. [Being eighteen years old or more and with intent to cause physical
     5  injury to a person less than eleven years old, the defendant  recklessly
     6  engages in conduct which creates a grave risk of serious physical injury
     7  to  such  person and thereby causes the death of such person] Recklessly
     8  or with the intent to cause physical injury, the  defendant  causes  the
     9  death of a person less than eighteen years old.
    10    Manslaughter  in the first degree is a class B felony provided, howev-
    11  er, that if the defendant causes the death of a child pursuant to subdi-
    12  vision four of this section this crime shall be a class A-1 felony.
    13    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    14  have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15303-01-4