Bill Text: NY A06176 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases the penalty for the crime of criminally negligent homicide by changing such offense to a class D felony from a class E felony.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-06-05 - held for consideration in codes [A06176 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A06176-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         6176
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     March 8, 2011
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       Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  WEISENBERG  -- read once and referred to the
         Committee on Codes
       AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to criminally negligent homi-
         cide
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Section  125.10  of  the  penal law is amended to read as
    2  follows:
    3  S 125.10  Criminally negligent homicide.
    4    A person is guilty of criminally negligent homicide when, with  crimi-
    5  nal negligence, he causes the death of another person.
    6    Criminally negligent homicide is a class [E] D felony.
    7    S  2. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    8  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD04376-01-1