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Senate Bill S6707

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Enacts "Paula's law"

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Crime Victims, Crime And Correction Committee

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2023-S6707 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A4661
Current Committee:
Senate Crime Victims, Crime And Correction
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §125.25, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S6633, A8524
2021-2022: S3963, A6017
2025-2026: S1933, A5783

2023-S6707 (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.

2023-S6707 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S6707 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6707
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                                May 5, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  WEBER  -- 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 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.
                                                            LBD09377-01-3

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