 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3963
 
                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    February 1, 2021
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        Introduced  by  Sen. REICHLIN-MELNICK -- 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 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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