STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4661 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 21, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. MCGOWAN -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to enacting "Paula's law" The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as 2 "Paula's law". 3 § 2. Legislative intent. This act is an expansion of "Joan's Law", 4 enacted in 2004, which denies parole in these circumstances for child 5 victims under the age of fourteen. This act expands upon "Joan's Law" by 6 including child victims under the age of eighteen. 7 § 3. Subdivision 5 of section 125.25 of the penal law, as amended by 8 chapter 320 of the laws of 2006, is amended to read as follows: 9 5. Being eighteen years old or more, while in the course of committing 10 rape in the first, second or third degree, criminal sexual act in the 11 first, second or third degree, sexual abuse in the first degree, aggra- 12 vated sexual abuse in the first, second, third or fourth degree, or 13 incest in the first, second or third degree, against a person less than 14 [fourteen] eighteen years old, he or she intentionally causes the death 15 of such person. 16 § 4. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 17 ing the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD09377-01-3