Bill Text: NY S04983 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Establishes the crime of feticide or the intentional killing of an unborn child at any stage of gestation; makes such crime a class A felony.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - REFERRED TO CODES [S04983 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-S04983-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4983 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN SENATE February 22, 2021 ___________ Introduced by Sen. LANZA -- 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 establishing the crime of feticide The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 125.24 to 2 read as follows: 3 § 125.24 Feticide. 4 A person is guilty of feticide when with intent to cause the death of 5 an unborn child at any stage of gestation, he or she causes the termi- 6 nation of a woman's pregnancy resulting in the death of such unborn 7 child at any stage of gestation, except when such termination occurs in 8 accordance with section twenty-five hundred ninety-nine-bb of the public 9 health law. 10 Feticide is a class A felony. 11 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 12 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06908-01-1