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A03573 Summary:

BILL NOA03573 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORSantabarbara

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COSPNSRSchiavoni, Manktelow, Colton

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §125.20, Pen L

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Designates crimes of manslaughter as class A-1 felonies when a defendant recklessly or with the intent to cause physical injury causes the death of a child.

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BILL NOA03573 

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01/28/2025referred to codes

01/07/2026referred to codes

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 3573

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 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:

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 4 and the closing paragraph of section 125.20
 2 of the penal law, subdivision 4 as added by chapter 477 of the laws of
 3 1990, are amended to read as follows:
 4 4. [Being eighteen years old or more and with intent to cause physical
 5 injury to a person less than eleven years old, the defendant recklessly
 6 engages in conduct which creates a grave risk of serious physical injury
 7 to such person and thereby causes the death of such person] Recklessly
 8 or with the intent to cause physical injury, the defendant causes the
 9 death of a person less than eighteen years old.
 10 Manslaughter in the first degree is a class B felony provided, howev-
 11 er, that if the defendant causes the death of a child pursuant to subdi-
 12 vision four of this section this crime shall be a class A-1 felony.
 13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
 14 have become a law.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD06711-01-5

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