New York Senate Bill S07311 Latest Draft

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7311 2023-2024 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE May 19, 2023 ___________ Introduced by Sen. CANZONERI-FITZPATRICK -- 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 making a murder as the result of a drive by shooting murder in the first degree The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subparagraph (xiii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 1 of 2 section 125.27 of the penal law is renumbered (xiv) and a new subpara- 3 graph (xiii) is added to read as follows: 4 (xiii) the victim was killed while the defendant was in the course of 5 committing or attempting to commit a drive by shooting. Under this para- 6 graph, a "drive by shooting" is defined as when a person, with the 7 intent to cause the death of another person, discharges a firearm from a 8 motor vehicle at another person outside of the motor vehicle. "Motor 9 vehicle" shall have the same meaning as defined under section one 10 hundred twenty-five of the vehicle and traffic law; or 11 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD01937-01-3