Bill Text: NY S02957 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Enacts "Amanda Lynn's Law"; establishes the crime of concealment of a human corpse as a class E felony.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: (Passed) 2015-09-23 - SIGNED CHAP.242 [S02957 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S02957-Amended.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 2957--A Cal. No. 225 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E January 30, 2015 ___________ Introduced by Sens. ORTT, DeFRANCISCO, FUNKE, SERINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first and second report, ordered to a third reading, passed by Senate and deliv- ered to the Assembly, recalled, vote reconsidered, restored to third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in the order of third reading 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, HAVING A 7 REASONABLE EXPECTATION THAT A HUMAN CORPSE OR A PART THEREOF WILL BE 8 PRODUCED FOR OR USED AS PHYSICAL EVIDENCE IN: (A) AN OFFICIAL PROCEED- 9 ING; (B) AN AUTOPSY AS PART OF A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION; OR (C) AN EXAM- 10 INATION BY LAW ENFORCEMENT PERSONNEL AS PART OF A CRIMINAL INVESTI- 11 GATION; SUCH PERSON, ALONE OR IN CONCERT WITH ANOTHER, CONCEALS, ALTERS 12 OR DESTROYS SUCH CORPSE OR PART THEREOF WITH THE INTENT TO PREVENT ITS 13 PRODUCTION, USE OR DISCOVERY. 14 CONCEALMENT OF A HUMAN CORPSE IS A CLASS E FELONY. 15 S 3. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 16 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD02764-04-5