Assembly Actions -
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Mar 31, 2014 |
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Assembly Bill A9209
2013-2014 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
SIMANOWITZ
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Assembly 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
2013-A9209 (ACTIVE) - Details
2013-A9209 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Establishes a person is guilty of manslaughter in the first degree when he or she recklessly causes the death of another person by means of a deadly weapon or deadly instrument; establishes a person is guilty of murder in the second degree when he or she under circumstances evincing a depraved indifference to the life of another person, intentionally engages in conduct which creates a grave risk of death to another person, and thereby causes the death of another person; establishes two of the situations where a person is guilty of murder in the second degree, which are not mutually exclusive.
2013-A9209 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 9209 I N A S S E M B L Y March 31, 2014 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SIMANOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the crimes of manslaughter in the first degree and murder in the second degree THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 125.20 of the penal law, as added by chapter 477 of the laws of 1990, is amended and a new subdivision 5 is added to read as follows: 4. Being eighteen years old or more and with intent to cause physical injury to a person less than eleven years old, the defendant recklessly engages in conduct which creates a grave risk of serious physical injury to such person and thereby causes the death of such person[.]; OR 5. THE DEFENDANT RECKLESSLY CAUSES THE DEATH OF ANOTHER PERSON BY MEANS OF A DEADLY WEAPON OR DANGEROUS INSTRUMENT. S 2. Subdivision 2 of section 125.25 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 791 of the laws of 1967, is amended to read as follows: 2. Under circumstances evincing a depraved indifference to [human] THE life OF ANOTHER PERSON, he INTENTIONALLY OR recklessly engages in conduct which creates a grave risk of death to another person, and thereby causes the death of another person; or S 3. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 125.24 to read as follows: S 125.24 MURDER IN THE SECOND DEGREE; NO DEFENSE. THE CRIMES DEFINED IN SUBDIVISIONS ONE AND TWO OF SECTION 125.25 OF THIS ARTICLE ARE NOT MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE, AND IT IS NO DEFENSE TO A PROS- ECUTION FOR MURDER IN THE SECOND DEGREE UNDER SUBDIVISION TWO OF SECTION 125.25 OF THIS ARTICLE THAT, BY REASON OF THE SAME CONDUCT, THE DEFEND- ANT ALSO COMMITTED MURDER IN THE SECOND DEGREE UNDER SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION 125.25 OF THIS ARTICLE. S 4. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD07192-01-3
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