Senate Bill S1498

2013-2014 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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2013-S1498 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง125.10, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: S567
2011-2012: S943
2015-2016: S424
2017-2018: S1310

2013-S1498 (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.

2013-S1498 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2013-S1498 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

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

                                  1498

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 9, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen.  MARCELLINO  -- 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 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.
                                                           LBD03260-01-3


              

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