New York S 8464: Moves the date of the meeting of the electors and the method for the transmission of the certificates of vote

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S08464 Summary:

BILL NOS08464A

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SAME ASSAME AS A08929-A

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SPONSORSALAZAR

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Rpld §125.25 sub 3, Pen L; add §440.48, CP L

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Repeals the crime of felony murder; permits vacating conviction and resentencing of defendants convicted of felony murder; requires reporting of certain crime statistics and information.

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BILL NOS08464A

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07/21/2025REFERRED TO RULES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CODES

01/21/2026AMEND (T) AND RECOMMIT TO CODES

01/21/2026PRINT NUMBER 8464A

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 8464--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 July 21, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sen. SALAZAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
 printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules -- recommitted to
 the Committee on Codes in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 --
 committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and
 recommitted to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to convictions
 under felony murder provisions; and to repeal certain provisions of
 the penal law relating thereto

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Legislative findings and intent. The legislature hereby
 2 finds and declares the following:
 3 a. The current provisions of New York's penal law pertaining to felony
 4 murder eliminate the distinction between intentional and unintentional
 5 homicide and are therefore not consistent with the principle of propor-
 6 tionality in charging and sentencing. Felony murder doctrine allows a
 7 defendant to be charged and sentenced for murder in circumstances where
 8 they were committing or attempting to commit a felony but did not actu-
 9 ally commit a homicidal act, intend that a homicidal act be committed,
 10 or even know that another person had committed such an act. Under
 11 current state law, an accomplice to a crime, for example someone driving
 12 a getaway car, may be charged with murder as if they had actually shot
 13 someone in the course of a crime such as robbery even in a circumstance
 14 where they were unarmed and physically removed from the site of the
 15 murder. Evidence from other states indicates that as many as one in five
 16 individuals serving prison sentences for murder have been convicted
 17 based on the felony murder doctrine. Studies have also found that
 18 prosecutors use the threat of felony murder charges to obtain plea deals
 19 for lengthy sentences, demonstrating felony murder doctrine's role in
 20 extreme sentencing and mass incarceration.

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD00306-05-6

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 1 b. Felony murder doctrine originated in England but was banned there
 2 in 1957 and subsequently in other Commonwealth countries including Cana-
 3 da, which banned it in 1990. The United States is an outlier globally in
 4 its application of felony murder doctrine, although some states, have in
 5 the last five years introduced significant reforms with California and
 6 Minnesota reintroducing the intention to kill as a requirement for the
 7 application of felony murder charges. New York, however, remains one of
 8 just thirteen states including Texas and Florida, where the felony
 9 murder doctrine is applied by prosecutors to pursue murder charges when
 10 the individual committing a homicidal act is a third party such as a
 11 victim holding their ground, a law enforcement officer, or a bystander.
 12 c. Evidence from across the country, reveals that felony murder laws
 13 have disproportionately negative consequences for non-white people,
 14 young people, and victims of domestic violence: in Pennsylvania eighty
 15 percent of those imprisoned with a felony murder conviction were people
 16 of color; in California sixty-eight percent of those serving time for
 17 felony murder are black or Latinx; according to the California Coalition
 18 for Women Prisoners, the majority of their memb