Bill Text: NY A06172 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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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

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                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