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A10772 Summary:

BILL NO	A10772
SAME AS	SAME AS S04774-A
SPONSOR	Cunningham
COSPNSR
MLTSPNSR
Add §125.13-a, Pen L
Creates the crime of vehicular homicide; makes such crime a class B felony.

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A10772 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          10772
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      April 1, 2026
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CUNNINGHAM  -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Codes
 
        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing  the  offense
          of vehicular homicide
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1.  The penal law is amended by adding a new section  125.13-a
     2  to read as follows:
     3  § 125.13-a Vehicular homicide.
     4    A person is guilty of vehicular homicide when such person, while oper-
     5  ating  a motor vehicle under circumstances evincing a depraved indiffer-
     6  ence to human life, intentionally engages in  conduct  that  causes  the
     7  death of another person.
     8    Vehicular homicide is a class B felony.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    10  it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD07445-04-5

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