Assembly Bill A5447

2009-2010 Legislative Session

Expands definition of second felony offender to include a person who is convicted of any felony having previously been convicted of a felony

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2009-A5447 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §70.06, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A7543
2013-2014: A5749
2015-2016: A3317
2017-2018: A3271

2009-A5447 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Expands the definition of "second felony offender" to remove the limitation that the second felony conviction be of a felony defined in the penal law.

2009-A5447 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  5447

                       2009-2010 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 13, 2009
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. McKEVITT, WALKER, FINCH, McDONOUGH, GIGLIO, KOLB,
  ALFANO,  BARRA  --  Multi-Sponsored  by -- M. of A. CALHOUN, CROUCH --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Codes

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to expanding  the  definition
  of "second felony offender"

  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, 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 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.
                                                           LBD09015-01-9

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