Bill Text: NY A06092 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Establishes the crime of concealment of a human corpse.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-05-20 - REFERRED TO CODES [A06092 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A06092-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 6092--A 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y March 14, 2013 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SCHIMMINGER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee 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, ACTING WITH 7 THE BELIEF THAT A HUMAN CORPSE OR A PART THEREOF WILL BE PRODUCED FOR OR 8 USED AS PHYSICAL EVIDENCE IN AN OFFICIAL PROCEEDING OR PROSPECTIVE OFFI- 9 CIAL PROCEEDING, SUCH PERSON, ALONE OR IN CONCERT WITH ANOTHER, 10 CONCEALS, ALTERS OR DESTROYS SUCH CORPSE OR PART THEREOF WITH THE INTENT 11 TO PREVENT ITS PRODUCTION, USE OR DISCOVERY. 12 CONCEALMENT OF A HUMAN CORPSE IS A CLASS E FELONY. 13 S 3. 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. LBD04716-05-3