New York Senate Bill 72 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: Introduced on January 4 2023 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2024-01-29 - OPINION REFERRED TO JUDICIARY
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Prohibits persons convicted of murder or sentenced to life without parole or where the defendant acting either alone or with one or more other persons, commits or attempts to commit robbery, burglary, kidnapping, arson, rape in the first degree, criminal sexual act in the first degree, sexual abuse in the first degree, aggravated sexual abuse, escape in the first degree, or escape in the second degree, and, in the course of and in furtherance of such crime or of immediate flight therefrom, he or she, or another participant, if there be any, intentionally causes the death of: a police officer; a peace officer; a firefighter, emergency medical technician, ambulance driver, paramedic, physician or registered nurse involved in a first response team, or any other individual who, in the course of official duties, performs emergency response; or an employee of a state correctional institution or was an employee of a local correctional facility, when such person was engaged in the course of performing their official duties, from being eligible for commutation of sentence.

Prohibits persons convicted of murder or sentenced to life without parole or where the defendant acting either alone or with one or more other persons, commits or attempts to commit robbery, burglary, kidnapping, arson, rape in the first degree, criminal sexual act in the first degree, sexual abuse in the first degree, aggravated sexual abuse, escape in the first degree, or escape in the second degree, and, in the course of and in furtherance of such crime or of immediate flight therefrom, he or she, or another participant, if there be any, intentionally causes the death of: a police officer; a peace officer; a firefighter, emergency medical technician, ambulance driver, paramedic, physician or registered nurse involved in a first response team, or any other individual who, in the course of official duties, performs emergency response; or an employee of a state correctional institution or was an employee of a local correctional facility, when such person was engaged in the course of performing their official duties, from being eligible for commutation of sentence.

Sen. Patrick Gallivan [R]	Sen. George Borrello [R]	Sen. Peter Oberacker [R]	Sen. Anthony Palumbo [R]
Sen. Steven Rhoads [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-01-29	Senate	OPINION REFERRED TO JUDICIARY
2024-01-04	Senate	TO ATTORNEY-GENERAL FOR OPINION
2024-01-03	Senate	REFERRED TO JUDICIARY
2023-02-07	Senate	OPINION REFERRED TO JUDICIARY
2023-01-06	Senate	TO ATTORNEY-GENERAL FOR OPINION
2023-01-04	Senate	REFERRED TO JUDICIARY

A04642 (Same As) 2024-01-26 - opinion referred to judiciary

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2023/S72
Text	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=S00072&term=2023&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y#S00072