Bill Text: NY S08988 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 8988 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Makes a murder as the result of a drive by shooting, murder in the first degree.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-09-18 - REFERRED TO RULES [S08988 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S08988-Introduced.html




                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8988

                    IN SENATE

                                   September 18, 2020
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  JORDAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules

        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to making  a  murder  as  the
          result of a drive by shooting murder in the first degree

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subparagraph (xiii) of paragraph (a) of  subdivision  1  of
     2  section  125.27  of the penal law is renumbered (xiv) and a new subpara-
     3  graph (xiii) is added to read as follows:
     4    (xiii) the victim was killed while the defendant was in the course  of
     5  committing or attempting to commit a drive by shooting. Under this para-
     6  graph,  a  "drive  by  shooting"  is  defined as when a person, with the
     7  intent to cause the death of another person, discharges a firearm from a
     8  motor vehicle at another person outside of the motor  vehicle.    "Motor
     9  vehicle"  shall  have  the  same  meaning  as  defined under section one
    10  hundred twenty-five of the vehicle and traffic law; or
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.






         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD17333-03-0