S05576 Summary:
| BILL NO | S05576 |
| SAME AS | No Same As |
| SPONSOR | LANZA |
| COSPNSR | GALLIVAN |
| MLTSPNSR | |
| Add §125.24, Pen L | |
| Establishes the crime of feticide or the intentional killing of an unborn child at any stage of gestation; makes such crime a class A felony. | |
S05576 Text:
Go to topSTATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5576 2025-2026 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 25, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sens. LANZA, GALLIVAN -- 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 establishing the crime of feticide 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 125.24 to 2 read as follows: 3 § 125.24 Feticide. 4 A person is guilty of feticide when with intent to cause the death of 5 an unborn child at any stage of gestation, such person causes the termi- 6 nation of a person's pregnancy resulting in the death of such unborn 7 child at any stage of gestation, except when such termination occurs in 8 accordance with section twenty-five hundred ninety-nine-bb of the public 9 health law. 10 Feticide is a class A felony. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 12 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09665-01-5