Bill Text: NY A02074 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Designates the definition of person for the purposes of homicide as Mya's law.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to codes [A02074 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A02074-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2074

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 23, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. HAWLEY, MORINELLO, ANGELINO, GALLAHAN, DeSTEFANO
          -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. BYRNES -- read once and referred  to
          the Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the definition of person

          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 125.05 of the  penal  law,
     2  as  amended  by  chapter  1  of  the laws of 2019, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    "Person," when referring to the victim of a homicide,  means  a  human
     5  being  who has been born and is alive.  This provision shall be known as
     6  "Mya's law".
     7    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.







         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00396-01-3