Assembly Bill A10066

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Designates crimes of manslaughter that result in the death of a child class A-1 felonies

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly Committee

  • 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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2023-A10066 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §125.20, Pen L

2023-A10066 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Designates crimes of manslaughter as class A-1 felonies when a defendant recklessly or with the intent to cause physical injury causes the death of a child.

2023-A10066 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10066
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 2, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in  relation  to  designating  crimes  of
   manslaughter that result in the death of a child class A-1 felonies
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 4 and the closing paragraph of  section  125.20
 of  the  penal law, subdivision 4 as added by chapter 477 of the laws of
 1990, are amended 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] RECKLESSLY
 OR WITH THE INTENT TO CAUSE PHYSICAL INJURY, THE  DEFENDANT  CAUSES  THE
 DEATH OF A PERSON LESS THAN EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD.
   Manslaughter  in the first degree is a class B felony PROVIDED, HOWEV-
 ER, THAT IF THE DEFENDANT CAUSES THE DEATH OF A CHILD PURSUANT TO SUBDI-
 VISION FOUR OF THIS SECTION THIS CRIME SHALL BE A CLASS A-1 FELONY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15303-01-4

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