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Senate Bill S5101

2011-2012 Legislative Session

Authorizes a person to apply to have certain prior misdemeanor and violation convictions removed from division of criminal justice services records

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2011-S5101 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Finance
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Add ยง837-s, Exec L

2011-S5101 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the commissioner of criminal justice services, upon application of any person who has not been convicted of an offense for over 20 years, to remove all such person's convictions of a misdemeanor or violation which occurred more than 20 years ago.

2011-S5101 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2011-S5101 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  5101

                       2011-2012 Regular Sessions

                            I N  S E N A T E

                               May 3, 2011
                               ___________

Introduced  by  Sen. JOHNSON -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
  printed to be committed to the Committee on Finance

AN ACT to amend the  executive  law,  in  relation  to  authorizing  the
  removal  from the criminal history records of the division of criminal
  justice service of certain convictions of misdemeanors and  violations
  which occurred 20 or more years in the past

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

  Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section  837-s
to read as follows:
  S 837-S. REMOVAL OF CERTAIN CONVICTIONS FROM CRIMINAL HISTORY RECORDS.
THE  COMMISSIONER  SHALL, UPON WRITTEN APPLICATION OF ANY PERSON WHO HAS
NOT BEEN CONVICTED OF A FELONY, MISDEMEANOR OR VIOLATION FOR  MORE  THAN
TWENTY  YEARS  ON THE DATE OF SUCH APPLICATION, REMOVE FROM THE CRIMINAL
HISTORY RECORDS MAINTAINED BY THE DIVISION ALL INFORMATION  RELATING  TO
ANY  CONVICTION  OF  SUCH PERSON OF A VIOLATION OR MISDEMEANOR OCCURRING
MORE THAN TWENTY YEARS BEFORE THE DATE OF THE APPLICATION.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred twentieth day after
it shall have become a law; provided, that, effective  immediately,  any
rules  and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this act
on its effective date are authorized and directed to be completed on  or
before such date.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD11250-01-1

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