Bill Text: NY A06172 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Increases penalties for crimes constituting vehicular manslaughter.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-07 - held for consideration in codes [A06172 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A06172-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6172 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY April 3, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. NORRIS -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to increasing penalties for crimes constituting vehicular manslaughter The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The closing paragraph of section 125.12 of the penal law, 2 as amended by chapter 732 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 Vehicular manslaughter in the second degree is a class [D] C felony. 5 § 2. The closing paragraph of section 125.13 of the penal law, as 6 amended by chapter 496 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as 7 follows: 8 Vehicular manslaughter in the first degree is a class [C] B felony. 9 § 3. The closing paragraph of section 125.14 of the penal law, as 10 amended by chapter 496 of the laws of 2009, is amended to read as 11 follows: 12 Aggravated vehicular homicide is a class [B] A-II felony. 13 § 4. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 14 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10501-01-3