Bill Text: NY S01326 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to first degree murder where the intended victim is a prosecutor or district attorney.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CODES [S01326 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S01326-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1326 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 14, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. FUNKE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to murder in the first degree where the intended victim was a prosecutor or district attorney The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subparagraph (xiii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of 2 section 125.27 of the penal law, as added by chapter 300 of the laws of 3 2001, is amended and a new subparagraph (xiv) is added to read as 4 follows: 5 (xiii) the victim was killed in furtherance of an act of terrorism, as 6 defined in paragraph (b) of subdivision one of section 490.05 of this 7 chapter; [and] or 8 (xiv) the intended victim was a prosecutor or district attorney, as 9 defined by subdivision thirty-one or thirty-two of section 1.20 of the 10 criminal procedure law and the defendant killed such victim because such 11 victim was, at the time of the killing, a prosecutor or district attor- 12 ney; and 13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 14 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. LBD07090-01-9
