Assembly Bill A9341

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Creates the crime of vehicular manslaughter in the third degree

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2011-A9341 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S577
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add §125.11-a, Pen L
Versions Introduced in 2009-2010 Legislative Session:
A2035, S2492

2011-A9341 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Creates the crime of vehicular manslaughter in the third degree, a class E felony, wherein a person operates a motor vehicle negligently so that the lives or safety of the public might be endangered and by any such operation causes the death of another person.

2011-A9341 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  9341

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 17, 2012
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Codes

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to vehicular manslaughter  in
  the third degree

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new  section  125.11-a
to read as follows:
S 125.11-A VEHICULAR MANSLAUGHTER IN THE THIRD DEGREE.
  A  PERSON IS GUILTY OF VEHICULAR MANSLAUGHTER IN THE THIRD DEGREE WHEN
HE OR SHE OPERATES A MOTOR VEHICLE NEGLIGENTLY SUCH THAT  THE  LIVES  OR
SAFETY  OF  THE  PUBLIC  BE  ENDANGERED AND BY SUCH OPERATION CAUSES THE
DEATH OF ANOTHER PERSON.
  VEHICULAR MANSLAUGHTER IN THE THIRD DEGREE IS A CLASS E FELONY.
  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.
                                                           LBD04767-01-1

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