Bill Text: NY A10339 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Enacts the "Benny A. Lyde's Law"; makes the sentence for an offense committed against an individual twenty-one years of age or younger a minimum of 10 years and a maximum of 30 years.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-10 - referred to codes [A10339 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A10339-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 10339 IN ASSEMBLY April 10, 2018 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SCHIMMINGER -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to enacting the "Benny A. Lyde's law" The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as 2 "Benny A. Lyde's law". 3 § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 3 of section 70.02 of the penal law, 4 as amended by chapter 765 of the laws of 2005, is amended to read as 5 follows: 6 (a) For a class B felony, the term must be at least five years and 7 must not exceed twenty-five years, provided, however, that the term must 8 be: (i) at least ten years and must not exceed thirty years where the 9 sentence is for the crime of aggravated assault upon a police officer or 10 peace officer as defined in section 120.11 of this chapter; [and] (ii) 11 at least ten years and must not exceed thirty years where the sentence 12 is for the crime of aggravated manslaughter in the first degree as 13 defined in section 125.22 of this chapter; and (iii) at least ten years 14 and must not exceed thirty years where the sentence is for the crime of 15 assault in the first degree as defined in section 120.10 of this chap- 16 ter, the victim of such crime was twenty-one years of age or younger; 17 § 3. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after 18 it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD14253-03-8