Requires all interrogations to be videotaped. / Sponsor: PERKINS Committee: CODES

Requires courts to notify victims upon service of orders of protection. / Sponsor: KRUEGER Committee: CHILDREN AND FAMILIES

Provides for evidentiary treatment of informant testimony; requires that an informant's testimony be corroborated, jury instructions given regarding reliability and disclosure by the prosecutor prior to acceptance of a plea bargain by the defendant. / Sponsor: Titus Committee:

Authorizes peace officers designated by the superintendent of insurance/financial services to execute arrest warrants and search warrants. / Sponsor: SEWARD Committee: CODES

Relates to an order upon termination of criminal action in favor of the accused. / Sponsor: Aubry Committee:

Establishes the actual innocence justice act of 2013; clarifies that convicted persons who can demonstrate a reasonable probability that they are innocent will have the right to challenge their convictions under the law, notwithstanding any other procedural or technical provisions of law that would have prevented them from doing so. / Sponsor: PERALTA Committee: CODES

Relates to the age for youthful offender status. / Sponsor: Lentol Committee:

Allows a superior court to order bail or recognizance for a defendant who has been convicted of a class A-II felony if the defendant is providing, or has agreed to provide material assistance pursuant to paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 of section 65.00 of the penal law. / Sponsor: Wright Committee:

Regulates the use of informants by the prosecuting attorney and law enforcement personnel; requires law enforcement personnel to submit an annual report to the department of state with statistical information relating to their use of informants. / Sponsor: ESPAILLAT Committee: CODES

Relates to the criminal use of a dangerous instrument on school grounds during the commission of a felony. / Sponsor: ADAMS Committee: CODES

Provides for the application for sealing a record of conviction; establishes waiting periods for various convictions where such application may be made; authorizes certain agencies to maintain records; may be unsealed at the time of an arrest; prohibits the publication of sealed records; prohibits the waiver of this section at plea. / Sponsor: HASSELL-THOMPSON Committee: CODES

Designates security hospital treatment assistants in the office of mental health as peace officers while performing duties in or arising out of the course of such person's employment. / Sponsor: Gunther Committee:

Provides that instructions to the jury shall include certain defenses; provides that such instructions shall include, but not be limited to, "Do not let bias, sympathy, prejudice, or public opinion influence your decision"; defines the term "bias". / Sponsor: Kellner Committee:

Requires courts, prior to accepting a plea to a misdemeanor or violation, to provide notice to the defendant that such plea and the acceptance thereof could result in deportation, removal from the United States, exclusion from the United States or denial of citizenship, if the defendant is not a citizen of the United States. / Sponsor: SQUADRON Committee: CODES

Authorizes a court issuing a non-family offense temporary order of protection or an order of protection to direct that such order be filed with the computerized registry for orders of protection and warrants, if it is necessary to fulfill the purposes of such order; directs the superintendent of state police to include such orders on computerized registry. / Sponsor: Pretlow Committee:

Permits the sealing of records of certain nonviolent criminal offenses; defines the term "eligible misdemeanor" to mean a misdemeanor that does not have as an element of the offense the use of a weapon or violence and which did not actually involve violence in its commission; defines the term, "nonsexual misdemeanor" to mean a misdemeanor under article 130 or 163 of the penal law or any offense that would require the offender to register as a sex offender under article 6-c of the correction law; provides an order granting sealing under this section shall restore the individual concerned, in the contemplation of the law, to the status such individual occupied before the arrest or institution of criminal proceedings for the crime that was the subject of the sealing; provided such person was between the ages of 17 and 21 when such conviction or convictions occurred. / Sponsor: PARKER Committee: CODES

Provides that where a defendant is charged with a felony sex offense, then any plea of guilty must be or must include at least a plea of guilty to a sex felony. / Sponsor: MAZIARZ Committee: CODES

Relates to identity theft; petitions for determination of factual innocence, issuance of identity theft passports and identity theft credit reports. / Sponsor: Wright Committee:

Alters the definition of "youth" to mean a person who is at least sixteen years old and less than twenty-one years old; provides that where a crime is had in a local criminal court and the eligible youth charged with a crime is alleged to have been committed when he or she was at least sixteen years old and less than nineteen years had not prior to the commencement of trial or entry of a plea of guilty been convicted of a crime or found a youthful offender, the court must find that he or she is a youthful offender. / Sponsor: CARLUCCI Committee: CODES

Authorizes courts to issue orders of protection of further or permanent duration in the presence of aggravating circumstances; applies to criminal and family courts; requires a motion to vacate or modify an order of protection to be made on notice to the non-moving party. / Sponsor: Wright Committee: