 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5783
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    February 20, 2025
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  CHLUDZINSKI -- 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 23 of the laws of 2024, 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, a crime formerly defined in
    11  section 130.50, 130.45 or 130.40 of this  title,  the  crime  of  sexual
    12  abuse in the first degree, aggravated sexual abuse in the first, second,
    13  third  or fourth degree, or incest in the first, second or third degree,
    14  against a person less than [fourteen] eighteen years old,  [he  or  she]
    15  such defendant intentionally causes the death 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.
                                                                   LBD03456-01-5
Enacts "Paula's law"

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