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Jan 09, 2019 |
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Senate Bill S925
2019-2020 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Codes 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
co-Sponsors
(R, C, IP) Senate District
2019-S925 (ACTIVE) - Details
2019-S925 (ACTIVE) - Summary
Denies eligibility for youthful offender treatment upon conviction of a class B violent felony, unless the court determines that such person was a minor participant in the crime or that mitigating circumstances exist which bear directly upon the manner in which the crime was committed.
2019-S925 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S925 SPONSOR: YOUNG TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to eligibility for youthful offender status PURPOSE: To limit the eligibility of a person for youthful offender treatment when such person has been convicted of any class B violent felony. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Section 1: Amends subdivisions 2 and 3 of section 720.10 of the Criminal Procedure Law. Section 2: Sets forth the effective date.
2019-S925 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 925 2019-2020 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E January 9, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sens. YOUNG, FUNKE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to eligibility for youthful offender status THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivisions 2 and 3 of section 720.10 of the criminal procedure law, subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 416 of the laws of 1986, paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 316 of the laws of 2006 and subdivision 3 as amended by chapter 264 of the laws of 2003, are amended to read as follows: 2. "Eligible youth" means a youth who is eligible to be found a youth- ful offender. Every youth is so eligible unless: (a) the conviction to be replaced by a youthful offender finding is for (i) a class A-I or class A-II felony, or (ii) an armed felony as defined in subdivision forty-one of section 1.20, except as provided in subdivision three, or (iii) [rape in the first degree, criminal sexual act in the first degree, or aggravated sexual abuse] A CLASS B VIOLENT FELONY OFFENSE AS DEFINED IN PARAGRAPH (A) OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION 70.02 OF THE PENAL LAW, except as provided in subdivision three, or (b) such youth has previously been convicted and sentenced for a felo- ny, or (c) such youth has previously been adjudicated a youthful offender following conviction of a felony or has been adjudicated on or after September first, nineteen hundred seventy-eight a juvenile delinquent who committed a designated felony act as defined in the family court act. 3. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision two, a youth who has been convicted of an armed felony offense or [of rape in the first degree, criminal sexual act in the first degree, or aggravated sexual abuse] A CLASS B VIOLENT FELONY OFFENSE is an eligible youth if the EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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