Bill Text: NY S06633 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Provides that being eighteen years old or more, while in the course of committing rape in the first, second or third degree, criminal sexual act in the first, second or third degree, sexual abuse in the first degree, aggravated sexual abuse in the first, second, third or fourth degree, or incest in the first, second or third degree, against a person less than eighteen years old, he or she intentionally causes the death of such person.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-12-28 - COMMITTED TO RULES [S06633 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S06633-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         6633--A

                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                      July 17, 2019
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by Sen. CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be  committed  to  the  Committee  on  Rules  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to enacting "Paula's law"

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
     2  "Paula's law".
     3    §  2.  Legislative  intent.  This act is an expansion of "Joan's Law",
     4  enacted in 2004, which denies parole in these  circumstances  for  child
     5  victims under the age of fourteen. This act expands upon "Joan's Law" by
     6  including child victims under the age of eighteen.
     7    §  3.  Subdivision 5 of section 125.25 of the penal law, as amended by
     8  chapter 320 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
     9    5. Being eighteen years old or more, while in the course of committing
    10  rape in the first, second or third degree, criminal sexual  act  in  the
    11  first,  second or third degree, sexual abuse in the first degree, aggra-
    12  vated sexual abuse in the first, second,  third  or  fourth  degree,  or
    13  incest  in the first, second or third degree, against a person less than
    14  [fourteen] eighteen years old, he or she intentionally causes the  death
    15  of such person.
    16    § 4. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    17  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.
                                                                   LBD13519-04-9