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Assembly Bill A6017

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Enacts "Paula's law"

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2021-A6017 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S3963
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §125.25, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A8524, S6633
2023-2024: A4661, S6707
2025-2026: A5783, S1933

2021-A6017 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that being eighteen years old or more, while in the course of committing rape in the first, second or third degree, criminal sexual act in the first, second or third degree, sexual abuse in the first degree, aggravated sexual abuse in the first, second, third or fourth degree, or incest in the first, second or third degree, against a person less than eighteen years old, he or she intentionally causes the death of such person.

2021-A6017 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6017
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               March 4, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. LAWLER -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to enacting "Paula's law"
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
 "Paula's law".
   §  2.  Legislative  intent.  This act is an expansion of "Joan's Law",
 enacted in 2004, which denies parole in these  circumstances  for  child
 victims under the age of fourteen. This act expands upon "Joan's Law" by
 including child victims under the age of eighteen.
   §  3.  Subdivision 5 of section 125.25 of the penal law, as amended by
 chapter 320 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows:
   5. Being eighteen years old or more, while in the course of committing
 rape in the first, second or third degree, criminal sexual  act  in  the
 first,  second or third degree, sexual abuse in the first degree, aggra-
 vated sexual abuse in the first, second,  third  or  fourth  degree,  or
 incest  in the first, second or third degree, against a person less than
 [fourteen] EIGHTEEN years old, he or she intentionally causes the  death
 of such person.
   § 4. 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.
                                                            LBD08315-01-1

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