STATE OF NEW YORK
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6587
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
March 18, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK -- read twice and ordered
printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to making a murder as the
result of a drive by shooting murder in the first degree
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subparagraph (xiii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of
2 section 125.27 of the penal law is renumbered (xiv) and a new subpara-
3 graph (xiii) is added to read as follows:
4 (xiii) the victim was killed while the defendant was in the course of
5 committing or attempting to commit a drive by shooting. Under this para-
6 graph, a "drive by shooting" is defined as when a person, with the
7 intent to cause the death of another person, discharges a firearm from a
8 motor vehicle at another person outside of the motor vehicle. "Motor
9 vehicle" shall have the same meaning as defined under section one
10 hundred twenty-five of the vehicle and traffic law; or
11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD03370-01-5
