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Senate Bill S300
2013-2014 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Codes 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
co-Sponsors
(D, WF) Senate District
2013-S300 (ACTIVE) - Details
2013-S300 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER:S300 TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the penal law, in relation to the crime of aggravated murder involving certain business owners and their employees PURPOSE: Relates to the crime of aggravated murder involving certain business owners. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1. Amends paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 and the opening paragraph of subdivision 3 of section 125.26 of the penal law, paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 as added and the opening paragraph of subdivision 3 as amended by chapter 482 of the laws of 2009 are amended, subdivision 3 is renumbered subdivision 4 and a new subdivision 3 is added. Provides that aggravated murder shall include the death of business owner, when such death is caused during the normal course of such owner's employment. Section 2. Amends Section 70.00, Subdivision 5 of the penal law. Provides that a defendant may be sentenced to life imprisonment without parole upon conviction for the crime of aggravated murder.
2013-S300 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ S. 300 A. 21 2013-2014 Regular Sessions S E N A T E - A S S E M B L Y (PREFILED) January 9, 2013 ___________ IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. DIAZ -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. CRESPO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the crime of aggravated murder involving certain business owners and their employees THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 and the opening paragraph of subdivision 3 of section 125.26 of the penal law, paragraph (b) of subdivision 2 as added and the opening paragraph of subdivision 3 as amended by chapter 482 of the laws of 2009, are amended, subdivision 3 is renumbered subdivision 4 and a new subdivision 3 is added to read as follows: (b) The defendant was more than eighteen years old at the time of the commission of the crime[.]; OR 3. WITH INTENT TO CAUSE THE DEATH OF THE OWNER OF A GROCERY STORE, BODEGA, TAXI CAB OR LIVERY CAB, OR HIS OR HER EMPLOYEES, INCLUDING DRIV- ERS, WHILE SUCH PERSON IS ACTING IN THE NORMAL COURSE OF HIS OR HER EMPLOYMENT, HE OR SHE CAUSES THE DEATH OF SUCH PERSON. In any prosecution under subdivision one [or], two OR THREE of this section, it is an affirmative defense that: S 2. Subdivision 5 of section 70.00 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 482 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as follows: 5. Life imprisonment without parole. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a defendant sentenced to life imprisonment without parole shall not be or become eligible for parole or conditional release. For purposes of commitment and custody, other than parole and conditional release, such sentence shall be deemed to be an indetermi- EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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