A 3573: 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.

  
  STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 3573 2025-2026 Regular Sessions  IN ASSEMBLY January 28, 2025 ___________ 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