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Senate Bill S1498
2011-2012 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Elections Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2011-S1498 (ACTIVE) - Details
- Current Committee:
- Senate Elections
- Law Section:
- Election Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd ยง8-500, El L
- Versions Introduced in 2009-2010 Legislative Session:
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S295
2011-S1498 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S1498 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the penal law, in relation to criminally negligent homicide SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 125.10 of the penal law is amended to increase the crime of criminally negligent homicide from a class E felony offense to a class D felony offense. JUSTIFICATION: Judges have expressed the view, during sentencing and after, that the sentence which could be imposed under the limits of the criminally negligent homicide statute, often do not fit the seriousness of the crime committed. First degree manslaughter is a class B felony and second degree manslaughter is a class C felony. Logically, the next successive or immediate lesser offense of criminally negligent homicide should be a class D felony. However, under current State penal law, criminally negligent homicide is actually a class E felony. Unfortunately, the discrepancy in the classification of these crimes was all too recently illustrated in the tragic death of a police officer, who died in May of 1996 as a result of injuries sustained
2011-S1498 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 1498 2011-2012 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E January 7, 2011 ___________ Introduced by Sen. LITTLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Elections AN ACT to amend the election law, in relation to qualifications for poll watchers THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Section 8-500 of the election law is amended by adding a new subdivision 5 to read as follows: 5. NO PERSON SHALL BE APPOINTED, CERTIFIED OR ACT AS A WATCHER WHO IS A CANDIDATE FOR ANY PUBLIC OFFICE TO BE VOTED FOR BY THE VOTERS OF THE ELECTION DISTRICT IN WHICH HE OR SHE IS TO SERVE, OR THE SPOUSE, PARENT OR CHILD OF SUCH A CANDIDATE. PROVIDED, THAT NO PROVISION OF THIS SUBDIVISION SHALL BE DEEMED TO PROHIBIT A CANDIDATE FOR PUBLIC OFFICE, OR HIS OR HER SPOUSE, PARENT OR CHILD, FROM BEING PRESENT AT A POLL PLACE AFTER THE POLLS HAVE CLOSED FOR THE PURPOSE OF DETERMINING THE ELECTION RESULTS FOR THE ELECTION. S 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02058-01-1
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