Assembly Bill A7543

2011-2012 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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2011-A7543 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง70.06, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A5447
2013-2014: A5749
2015-2016: A3317
2017-2018: A3271

2011-A7543 (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.

2011-A7543 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  7543

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 10, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. McKEVITT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
  tee 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.
                                                           LBD11054-01-1

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