New York 2025-2026 Regular Session

New York Senate Bill S02576 Latest Draft

Bill / Introduced Version Filed 01/21/2025

   
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 2576 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN SENATE January 21, 2025 ___________ Introduced by Sen. ORTT -- 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 the definition of person The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The closing paragraph of section 125.05 of the penal law, 2 as amended by chapter 1 of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as 3 follows: 4 "Person," when referring to the victim of a homicide, means a human 5 being who has been born and is alive. This provision shall be known as 6 "Mya's law". 7 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD04589-01-5