Assembly Bill A3573

                             
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                                   3573
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 28, 2025
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 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. SANTABARBARA -- read once and referred to the
   Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in  relation  to  designating  crimes  of
   manslaughter that result in the death of a child class A-1 felonies
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 4 and the closing paragraph of  section  125.20
 of  the  penal law, subdivision 4 as added by chapter 477 of the laws of
 1990, are amended to read as follows:
   4. [Being eighteen years old or more and with intent to cause physical
 injury to a person less than eleven years old, the defendant  recklessly
 engages in conduct which creates a grave risk of serious physical injury
 to  such  person and thereby causes the death of such person] RECKLESSLY
 OR WITH THE INTENT TO CAUSE PHYSICAL INJURY, THE  DEFENDANT  CAUSES  THE
 DEATH OF A PERSON LESS THAN EIGHTEEN YEARS OLD.
   Manslaughter  in the first degree is a class B felony PROVIDED, HOWEV-
 ER, THAT IF THE DEFENDANT CAUSES THE DEATH OF A CHILD PURSUANT TO SUBDI-
 VISION FOUR OF THIS SECTION THIS CRIME SHALL BE A CLASS A-1 FELONY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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