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Senate Bill S2708
2017-2018 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(D, WF) 21st Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Children And Families Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
2017-S2708 (ACTIVE) - Details
2017-S2708 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S2708 TITLE OF BILL : An act to amend the family court act, in relation to changing the juvenile delinquent status age from sixteen to seventeen PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL : This bill would change the age or juveniles subject to juvenile courts. SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS : Section one of the bill amends section 301.2 of the family court act, so that the term "juvenile delinquent" would apply to a person over seven and less than eighteen years of age. Current law provides that the term applies 19 those under sixteen years of age. JUSTIFICATION : By federal standards all person 17 and under are considered juveniles. Each state however has the authority to decide who by age may be tried in juvenile courts. Only North Carolina, Connecticut and New York limit that jurisdiction to persons 15 and younger. Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Texas and Wisconsin juvenile courts have jurisdiction over persons 16 years and younger. All other states set the juvenile status
2017-S2708 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 2708 2017-2018 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E January 17, 2017 ___________ Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Children and Families AN ACT to amend the family court act, in relation to changing the juve- nile delinquent status age from sixteen to seventeen THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 301.2 of the family court act, as added by chapter 920 of the laws of 1982, is amended to read as follows: 1. "Juvenile delinquent" means a person over seven and less than [sixteen] SEVENTEEN years of age, who, having committed an act that would constitute a crime if committed by an adult, (a) is not criminally responsible for such conduct by reason of infancy, or (b) is the defend- ant in an action ordered removed from a criminal court to the family court pursuant to article seven hundred twenty-five of the criminal procedure law. § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day next succeeding 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. LBD03019-01-7
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