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Assembly Bill A10772

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Establishes the offense of vehicular homicide

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2025-A10772 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S4774
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add §125.13-a, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A8587, S6386
2015-2016: A3536, S2484
2017-2018: A3759, S3299
2019-2020: A863, S2149
2021-2022: A9703, S1228
2023-2024: A6984, S3602

2025-A10772 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Creates the crime of vehicular homicide; makes such crime a class B felony.

2025-A10772 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10772
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               April 1, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CUNNINGHAM  -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing  the  offense
   of vehicular homicide
 
   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  125.13-a
 to read as follows:
 § 125.13-A VEHICULAR HOMICIDE.
   A PERSON IS GUILTY OF VEHICULAR HOMICIDE WHEN SUCH PERSON, WHILE OPER-
 ATING  A MOTOR VEHICLE UNDER CIRCUMSTANCES EVINCING A DEPRAVED INDIFFER-
 ENCE TO HUMAN LIFE, INTENTIONALLY ENGAGES IN  CONDUCT  THAT  CAUSES  THE
 DEATH OF ANOTHER PERSON.
   VEHICULAR HOMICIDE IS A CLASS B FELONY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07445-04-5

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