STATE OF NEW YORK
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2711
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 28, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. FUNKE -- 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 murder in the first degree
where the intended victim was a prosecutor or district attorney
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, as added by chapter 300 of the laws of
3 2001, is amended and a new subparagraph (xiv) is added to read as
4 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 intended victim was a prosecutor or district attorney, as
9 defined by subdivision thirty-one or thirty-two of section 1.20 of the
10 criminal procedure law and the defendant killed such victim because such
11 victim was, at the time of the killing, a prosecutor or district attor-
12 ney; and
13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
14 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.
LBD04681-01-5
