Bill Text: NY S01310 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 1310 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Increases the penalty for the crime of criminally negligent homicide by changing such offense to a class D felony from a class E felony.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO CODES [S01310 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S01310-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1310
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                     January 9, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  MARCELLINO  -- 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 criminally negligent homi-
          cide
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section  125.10  of  the  penal law is amended to read as
     2  follows:
     3  § 125.10  Criminally negligent homicide.
     4    A person is guilty of criminally negligent homicide when, with  crimi-
     5  nal negligence, he causes the death of another person.
     6    Criminally negligent homicide is a class [E] D felony.
     7    §  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
     8  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.
                                                                   LBD05854-01-7