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Assembly Bill A9150

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Permits sentences for two or more crimes committed through a single act to run consecutively when one of such crimes is a homicide

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2013-A9150 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6462
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง70.25, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: A317
2017-2018: A7693

2013-A9150 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Permits sentences for two or more crimes to run consecutively, when one of such crimes is a homicide.

2013-A9150 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  9150

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                             March 20, 2014
                               ___________

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

AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to consecutive sentences  for
  homicide offenses

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

  Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 70.25 of the penal law, as amended
by chapter 56 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows:
  2. When more than one sentence of imprisonment is imposed on a  person
for  two or more offenses committed through a single act or omission, or
through an act or omission  which  in  itself  constituted  one  of  the
offenses  and  also  was a material element of the other, the sentences,
except if one or more of such sentences is for a  violation  of  section
270.20  of  this chapter, must run concurrently.  PROVIDED HOWEVER, THAT
IF ONE OR MORE OF SUCH SENTENCES IS FOR A CONVICTION UNDER  ARTICLE  ONE
HUNDRED  TWENTY-FIVE OF THIS CHAPTER, THE SENTENCES MAY RUN CONSECUTIVE-
LY.
  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.
                                                           LBD13564-02-4

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