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Assembly Bill A10412

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Relates to the age for youthful offender status

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2011-A10412 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Criminal Procedure Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง720.10, CP L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A3592
2015-2016: A2268
2017-2018: A3112

2011-A10412 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the age for youthful offender status.

2011-A10412 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  10412

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 25, 2012
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee
  on Codes

AN  ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to the age of a
  youthful offender

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

  Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 720.10 of the criminal procedure
law, as amended by chapter 411 of the laws of 1979, is amended  to  read
as follows:
  1.  "Youth"  means  a person charged with a crime alleged to have been
committed when he OR SHE was at least sixteen years old  and  less  than
[nineteen]  TWENTY-ONE  years old or a person charged with being a juve-
nile offender as defined in subdivision forty-two  of  section  1.20  of
this chapter.
  S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
have become a law.







 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD15890-01-2

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