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S04186 Summary:

BILL NO	S04186
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.

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S04186 Actions:

BILL NO	S04186
02/06/2023	REFERRED TO CODES
01/03/2024	REFERRED TO CODES

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S04186 Text:

 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          4186
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    February 6, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        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, he or she causes  the  termi-
     6  nation  of  a  woman'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.
                                                                   LBD08551-01-3

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