Bill Text: NY A01590 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 1590 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Makes a murder as the result of a drive by shooting, murder in the first degree.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to codes [A01590 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A01590-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1590

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 11, 2021
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to making  a  murder  as  the
          result of a drive by shooting murder in the first degree

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

     1    Section 1. Subparagraph (xiii) of paragraph (a) of  subdivision  1  of
     2  section  125.27  of the penal law is renumbered (xiv) and a new subpara-
     3  graph (xiii) is added to read as follows:
     4    (xiii) the victim was killed while the defendant was in the course  of
     5  committing or attempting to commit a drive by shooting. Under this para-
     6  graph,  a  "drive  by  shooting"  is  defined as when a person, with the
     7  intent to cause the death of another person, discharges a firearm from a
     8  motor vehicle at another person outside of the motor  vehicle.    "Motor
     9  vehicle"  shall  have  the  same  meaning  as  defined under section one
    10  hundred twenty-five of the vehicle and traffic law; or
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00867-01-1