Bill Text: NY S00943 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 943 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

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: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 4-2)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-02-29 - referred to codes [S00943 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-S00943-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                          943
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                      (PREFILED)
                                    January 5, 2011
                                      ___________
       Introduced  by  Sens.  MARCELLINO, LARKIN, RANZENHOFER -- read twice and
         ordered printed, and when printed to be committed 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