Assembly Bill A4034

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Relates to strangulation

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2011-A4034 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§10.00, 30.00, 60.07 & 70.02, add §120.09, Pen L; amd §§1.20 & 190.71, CP L; amd §995, Exec L; amd §§117, 301.2, 352.2, 754, 1039-b & 1052, Fam Ct Act; amd §410, Gen Bus L; amd §220-b, Lab L; amd §§358-a & 384-b, Soc Serv L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A5164
2013-2014: A6302

2011-A4034 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Creates and defines a new crime of strangulation and amends certain laws to include strangulation.

2011-A4034 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  4034

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 1, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of A. GABRYSZAK, GUNTHER, JAFFEE, PAULIN, ROSENTHAL,
  SPANO -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of  A.  BARCLAY,  BRENNAN,  BURLING,
  CROUCH,  KELLNER,  MARKEY,  PHEFFER, RAIA, SWEENEY, WEISENBERG -- read
  once and referred to the Committee on Codes

AN ACT to amend the penal law, the criminal procedure law, the executive
  law, the family court act, the general business law, the labor law and
  the social services law, in relation to strangulation

  THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section  1.  Subdivision  13  of  section  10.00  of the penal law, as
amended by chapter 791 of the laws  of  1967,  is  amended  to  read  as
follows:
  13.  "Dangerous  instrument"  means:  (I)  any  instrument, article or
substance, including a  "vehicle"  as  that  term  is  defined  in  this
section,  which,  under the circumstances in which it is used, attempted
to be used or threatened to be used, is readily capable of causing death
or other serious physical injury; OR (II) HANDS OR  OTHER  OBJECTS  WHEN
USED  TO  IMPEDE  NORMAL  BREATHING  OR CIRCULATION OF BLOOD BY APPLYING
PRESSURE ON THE THROAT OR NECK OR OBSTRUCTING THE NOSE OR MOUTH.
  S 2.  Subdivision 42 of section 1.20 of the criminal procedure law, as
amended by chapter 7 of the laws of 2007, is amended to read as follows:
  42. "Juvenile offender" means (1) a person, thirteen years old who  is
criminally responsible for acts constituting murder in the second degree
as  defined  in  subdivisions one and two of section 125.25 of the penal
law, or such conduct as a sexually motivated  felony,  where  authorized
pursuant  to  section 130.91 of the penal law; and (2) a person fourteen
or fifteen years old who is criminally responsible for acts constituting
the crimes defined in subdivisions one and two of section 125.25 (murder
in the second degree) and in subdivision three of such section  provided
that  the  underlying  crime for the murder charge is one for which such
person is criminally responsible;  section  135.25  (kidnapping  in  the

 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD07623-01-1
              

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