Legislators propose a New York bill creating harsher penalties for DUI or drunk drivers convicted in a fatal accident.

A spokesman for Governor Spitzer says the governor will sign the bill into law after the Senate and Assembly pass it this week.

The deal was struck after an emotional plea by a mother who recounted holding her dead daughter following a crash after a family wedding on Long Island two years ago.

The bill was inspired by the crash that killed 7-year-old Katie Flynn. It moved unusually fast by Albany's standards. It was spurred along two weeks ago when Katie's mother recounted at a Senate press conference how she held her daughter's decapitated head immediately after the wreck that also killed the limousine driver.

The bill would create the crime of aggravated vehicular homicide, a Class B felony, punishable by up to 25 years to life in prison.

The bill would also create the crime of aggravated vehicular assault, a Class C felony, punishable by up to 15 years in prison.

The driver convicted in the Flynn crash, 25-year-old Martin Heidgen, was convicted of 2 counts of murder and sentenced to 18 years to life in prison.