| Date of Action |
Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
|---|---|
| Jan 20, 2010 |
referred to codes |
Senate Bill S6624
2009-2010 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Codes Committee
Actions
2009-S6624 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Assembly Version of this Bill:
- A8351
- Current Committee:
- Senate Codes
- Law Section:
- Penal Law
- Laws Affected:
- Amd §125.12, Pen L
- Versions Introduced in 2011-2012 Legislative Session:
-
S3830, A4376
2009-S6624 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S6624
TITLE OF BILL :
An act to amend the penal law, in relation to including the unlicensed
operation of a motor vehicle within the crime of vehicular
manslaughter in the second degree
PURPOSE :
This bill will provide harsher penalties for the unlicensed operation
of a motor vehicle which results in the death or serious bodily injury
of another person.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS :
This bill amends § 125.12 of the Penal Code by including a violation
of Vehicle and Traffic Law §511 (unlicensed operation) to the list of
offenses under said section which qualify as vehicular manslaughter in
the second degree.
JUSTIFICATION :
In October of 1999, Udo Krauss was killed when an unlicensed driver
crossed the double yellow line and struck his vehicle head-on. The
unlicensed driver's penalty was a revocation of driving privileges for
180 days. The victim's family was left with no sense of justice and
continues to champion the implementation of stricter laws against
unlicensed drivers. Unfortunately, this is an all too common
2009-S6624 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________
6624
I N S E N A T E
January 20, 2010
___________
Introduced by Sen. O. JOHNSON -- 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 including the unlicensed
operation of a motor vehicle within the crime of vehicular manslaught-
er in the second degree
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 125.12 of the penal law, as
amended by chapter 732 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as
follows:
(1) operates a motor vehicle in violation of subdivision two, three,
four or four-a of section eleven hundred ninety-two of the vehicle and
traffic law or OPERATES A MOTOR VEHICLE IN VIOLATION OF SECTION FIVE
HUNDRED ELEVEN OF THE VEHICLE AND TRAFFIC LAW OR operates a vessel or
public vessel in violation of paragraph (b), (c), (d) or (e) of subdivi-
sion two of section forty-nine-a of the navigation law, and as a result
of such intoxication or impairment by the use of a drug, or by the
combined influence of drugs or of alcohol and any drug or drugs, oper-
ates such motor vehicle, vessel or public vessel in a manner that causes
the death of such other person, or
S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
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.
LBD11861-01-9
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