Bill Text: NY A06451 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes Kyra's Law establishing the crime of vehicular homicide as causing the death of a person while operating a vehicle with suspended, revoked or no license.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 17-4)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-03-22 - enacting clause stricken [A06451 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A06451-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6451 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 17, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. McDONOUGH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the offense of vehicular homicide as causing the death of a person while knowingly operating a motor vehicle with a revoked or suspended license or while not holding a license The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as "Kyra's law". 2 § 2. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 125.30 to read 3 as follows: 4 § 125.30 Vehicular homicide. 5 A person is guilty of vehicular homicide when he or she causes the 6 death of another person, while operating a motor vehicle, knowing or 7 having reason to know that his or her license or privilege to operate a 8 motor vehicle is suspended or revoked pursuant to subdivision two or 9 two-a of section five hundred ten or subdivision one or three of section 10 five hundred ten-a of the vehicle and traffic law for conduct relating 11 to the operation of a motor vehicle, or knowing or having reason to know 12 that he or she is not licensed to operate a motor vehicle on a public 13 highway pursuant to the vehicle and traffic law. 14 Vehicular homicide is a class D felony. 15 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 16 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03641-01-1