 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          5576
 
                               2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                    IN SENATE
 
                                    February 25, 2025
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        Introduced  by  Sens. LANZA, GALLIVAN -- 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 establishing the crime  of
          feticide
 
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 125.24  to
     2  read as follows:
     3  § 125.24 Feticide.
     4    A  person is guilty of feticide when with intent to cause the death of
     5  an unborn child at any stage of gestation, such person causes the termi-
     6  nation of a person's pregnancy resulting in the  death  of  such  unborn
     7  child  at any stage of gestation, except when such termination occurs in
     8  accordance with section twenty-five hundred ninety-nine-bb of the public
     9  health law.
    10    Feticide is a class A felony.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day  after  it  shall
    12  have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD09665-01-5
Establishes the crime of feticide

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