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Senate Bill S5576

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Establishes the crime of feticide

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2025-S5576 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add §125.24, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S5621
2021-2022: S4983
2023-2024: S4186

2025-S5576 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes the crime of feticide or the intentional killing of an unborn child at any stage of gestation; makes such crime a class A felony.

2025-S5576 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S5576 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5576
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             February 25, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sens. LANZA, GALLIVAN -- 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 establishing the crime  of
   feticide
 
   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 125.24  to
 read as follows:
 § 125.24 FETICIDE.
   A  PERSON IS GUILTY OF FETICIDE WHEN WITH INTENT TO CAUSE THE DEATH OF
 AN UNBORN CHILD AT ANY STAGE OF GESTATION, SUCH PERSON CAUSES THE TERMI-
 NATION OF A PERSON'S PREGNANCY RESULTING IN THE  DEATH  OF  SUCH  UNBORN
 CHILD  AT ANY STAGE OF GESTATION, EXCEPT WHEN SUCH TERMINATION OCCURS IN
 ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED NINETY-NINE-BB OF THE PUBLIC
 HEALTH LAW.
   FETICIDE IS A CLASS A FELONY.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09665-01-5

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