Bill Text: NY A04085 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Enacts "Amanda Lynn's law"; establishes the crime of concealment of a human corpse as a class E felony.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2015-06-15 - substituted by s2957a [A04085 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A04085-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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4085--A
Cal. No. 252
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N A S S E M B L Y
January 29, 2015
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Introduced by M. of A. SCHIMMINGER, ABINANTI -- read once and referred
to the Committee on Codes -- passed by Assembly and delivered to the
Senate, recalled from the Senate, vote reconsidered, bill amended,
ordered reprinted, retaining its place on the order of third reading
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing the crime of
concealment of a human corpse
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as "Amanda Lynn's
2 Law".
3 S 2. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 195.02 to read
4 as follows:
5 S 195.02 CONCEALMENT OF A HUMAN CORPSE.
6 A PERSON IS GUILTY OF CONCEALMENT OF A HUMAN CORPSE WHEN, HAVING A
7 REASONABLE EXPECTATION THAT A HUMAN CORPSE OR A PART THEREOF WILL BE
8 PRODUCED FOR OR USED AS PHYSICAL EVIDENCE IN: (A) AN OFFICIAL PROCEED-
9 ING; (B) AN AUTOPSY AS PART OF A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION; OR (C) AN EXAM-
10 INATION BY LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL AS PART OF A CRIMINAL INVESTI-
11 GATION; SUCH PERSON, ALONE OR IN CONCERT WITH ANOTHER, CONCEALS, ALTERS
12 OR DESTROYS SUCH CORPSE OR PART THEREOF WITH THE INTENT TO PREVENT ITS
13 PRODUCTION, USE OR DISCOVERY.
14 CONCEALMENT OF A HUMAN CORPSE IS A CLASS E FELONY.
15 S 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
16 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
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