STATE OF NEW YORK
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6855
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 14, 2025
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Introduced by M. of A. COOK, COLTON, HUNTER, STIRPE, TAYLOR, BUTTENS-
CHON, BICHOTTE HERMELYN, DAVILA -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to first degree murder of a
child under the age of twelve
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. This act may be cited and shall be known as "Maddox's Law".
2 § 2. Subparagraph (xiii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of section
3 125.27 of the penal law, as added by chapter 300 of the laws of 2001, is
4 amended and a new subparagraph (xiv) is added to read as follows:
5 (xiii) the victim was killed in furtherance of an act of terrorism, as
6 defined in paragraph (b) of subdivision one of section 490.05 of this
7 chapter; [and] or
8 (xiv) the victim was a child under the age of twelve; and
9 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
10 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.
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