STATE OF NEW YORK
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4774--A
Cal. No. 917
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
February 12, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. C. RYAN, ADDABBO, BORRELLO, BYNOE, CANZONERI-FITZPA-
TRICK, CHAN, COMRIE, FAHY, GALLIVAN, GOUNARDES, HELMING, HOYLMAN-SI-
GAL, JACKSON, LANZA, MARTINEZ, MARTINS, MATTERA, MAYER, MURRAY, OBER-
ACKER, PALUMBO, RAMOS, RHOADS, ROLISON, SCARCELLA-SPANTON, SKOUFIS,
TEDISCO, WEIK -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to
be committed to the Committee on Codes -- reported favorably from said
committee, ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third
reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the
order of third reading
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.
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