Bill Text: NY S01915 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Increases the penalties of vehicular manslaughter to a class A-I felonies.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO CODES [S01915 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-S01915-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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1915
2013-2014 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
(PREFILED)
January 9, 2013
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Introduced by Sen. ADDABBO -- 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 the crime of vehicular
manslaughter, and to repeal certain provisions of the penal law relat-
ing thereto
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. The section heading, opening paragraph and closing para-
2 graph of section 125.12 of the penal law, as amended by chapter 732 of
3 the laws of 2006, are amended to read as follows:
4 Vehicular manslaughter [in the second degree].
5 A person is guilty of vehicular manslaughter [in the second degree]
6 when he or she causes the death of another person, and either:
7 Vehicular manslaughter [in the second degree] is a class [D] A-I felo-
8 ny.
9 S 2. Section 125.13 of the penal law is REPEALED.
10 S 3. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
11 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD04963-01-3
