 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          6017
 
                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                      March 4, 2021
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced by M. of A. LAWLER -- read once and referred to the Committee
          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.
                                                                   LBD08315-01-1
Enacts "Paula's law"

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