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Assembly Bill A4992

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Includes within the definition of second felony offender, a person convicted of an alcohol or drug felony under the vehicle and traffic law

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2009-A4992 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง70.06, Pen L

2009-A4992 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Includes within the definition of "second felony offender", a person convicted of an alcohol or drug felony under article 31 of the vehicle and traffic law.

2009-A4992 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  4992

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 10, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by M. of A. BRODSKY -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee on Codes

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to including within the defi-
  nition of "second felony offender" a  person  convicted  of  a  felony
  under the vehicle and traffic law

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 1  of  section  70.06  of  the
penal  law, as amended by chapter 410 of the laws of 1979, is amended to
read as follows:
  (a)  A second felony offender is a person, other than a second violent
felony offender as defined in section 70.04, who stands convicted  of  a
felony  defined  in  this chapter, other than a class A-I felony, OR WHO
STANDS CONVICTED OF A FELONY DEFINED IN ARTICLE THIRTY-ONE OF THE  VEHI-
CLE  AND  TRAFFIC  LAW, after having previously been subjected to one or
more predicate felony convictions as defined in paragraph  (b)  of  this
subdivision.
  S  2.    This  act  shall  take  effect  on the first of November 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.
                                                           LBD08677-01-9

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