Assembly Bill A6176

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Increases the penalty for crime of criminally negligent homicide

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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-A6176 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S943
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง125.10, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S567
2013-2014: S1498
2015-2016: S424
2017-2018: S1310

2011-A6176 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the penalty for the crime of criminally negligent homicide by changing such offense to a class D felony from a class E felony.

2011-A6176 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  6176

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              March 8, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  WEISENBERG  -- read once and referred to the
  Committee on Codes

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to criminally negligent homi-
  cide

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

  Section  1.  Section  125.10  of  the  penal law is amended to read as
follows:
S 125.10  Criminally negligent homicide.
  A person is guilty of criminally negligent homicide when, with  crimi-
nal negligence, he causes the death of another person.
  Criminally negligent homicide is a class [E] D felony.
  S  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
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.
                                                           LBD04376-01-1

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