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Senate Bill S1933

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Enacts "Paula's law"

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2025-S1933 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A5783
Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §125.25, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S6633, A8524
2021-2022: S3963, A6017
2023-2024: S6707, A4661

2025-S1933 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that being eighteen years old or more, while in the course of committing rape in the first, second or third degree, criminal sexual act in the first, second or third degree, sexual abuse in the first degree, aggravated sexual abuse in the first, second, third or fourth degree, or incest in the first, second or third degree, against a person less than eighteen years old, such defendant intentionally causes the death of such person.

2025-S1933 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S1933 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1933
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 14, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sens. WEBER, GALLIVAN, HELMING, MARTINS, MATTERA, MURRAY,
   ORTT, PALUMBO, RHOADS, ROLISON -- 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:
 
   Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may  be  cited  as
 "Paula's law".
   §  2.  Legislative  intent.  This act is an expansion of "Joan's Law",
 enacted in 2004, which denies parole in these  circumstances  for  child
 victims under the age of fourteen. This act expands upon "Joan's Law" by
 including child victims under the age of eighteen.
   §  3.  Subdivision 5 of section 125.25 of the penal law, as amended by
 chapter 23 of the laws of 2024, is amended to read as follows:
   5. Being eighteen years old or more, while in the course of committing
 rape in the first, second or third degree, a crime formerly  defined  in
 section  130.50,  130.45  or  130.40  of this title, the crime of sexual
 abuse in the first degree, aggravated sexual abuse in the first, second,
 third or fourth degree, or incest in the first, second or third  degree,
 against  a  person  less than [fourteen] EIGHTEEN years old, [he or she]
 SUCH DEFENDANT intentionally causes the death of such person.
   § 4. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
 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

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