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.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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IN ASSEMBLY
May 2, 2024
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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:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 and the closing paragraph of section 125.20
2 of the penal law, subdivision 4 as added by chapter 477 of the laws of
3 1990, are amended to read as follows:
4 4. [Being eighteen years old or more and with intent to cause physical
5 injury to a person less than eleven years old, the defendant recklessly
6 engages in conduct which creates a grave risk of serious physical injury
7 to such person and thereby causes the death of such person] Recklessly
8 or with the intent to cause physical injury, the defendant causes the
9 death of a person less than eighteen years old.
10 Manslaughter in the first degree is a class B felony provided, howev-
11 er, that if the defendant causes the death of a child pursuant to subdi-
12 vision four of this section this crime shall be a class A-1 felony.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
14 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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