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Assembly Bill A5337

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Increases from eighteen months to three years the period of confinement to be served by a respondent in a secure facility in the custody of the office of children and family services

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2009-A5337 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Children And Families
Law Section:
Family Court Act
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง353.5, Fam Ct Act

2009-A5337 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases length of time juvenile offenders found to have committed serious criminal felony acts would be confined in secure youth facilities; for what would be designated a class A felony act, minimum is increased from twelve to eighteen months and maximum from eighteen months to three years and for any other designated felony act not less than twelve instead of six months nor more than twenty-four instead of twelve months.

2009-A5337 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  5337

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 13, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M. of A. ERRIGO, GIGLIO, KOLB, McDONOUGH, TOBACCO, TOWN-
  SEND, WALKER, FINCH  --  Multi-Sponsored  by  --  M.  of  A.  BARCLAY,
  CALHOUN, CROUCH, JORDAN, McKEVITT, THIELE -- read once and referred to
  the Committee on Children and Families

AN ACT to amend the family court act, in relation to periods of confine-
  ment to be served in a secure facility in the custody of the office of
  children and family services

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

  Section 1. Subparagraph (ii) of paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision  4  of
section  353.5  of  the family court act, as added by chapter 920 of the
laws of 1982, is amended to read as follows:
  (ii) the respondent shall initially be confined in a  secure  facility
for  a  period  set  by the order, to be not less than [twelve] EIGHTEEN
MONTHS nor more than [eighteen months] THREE  YEARS  provided,  however,
where the order of the court is made in compliance with subdivision five
the  respondent  shall  initially  be  confined in a secure facility for
eighteen months.
  S 2. Subparagraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision  5  of  section
353.5  of  the  family court act, as added by chapter 920 of the laws of
1982, is amended to read as follows:
  (ii) the respondent shall initially be confined in a  secure  facility
for a period set by the order, to be not less than [six] TWELVE nor more
than [twelve] TWENTY-FOUR months.
  S 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
ing 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.
                                                           LBD05814-01-9

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