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Assembly Bill A9895

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Authorizes the imposition of consecutive sentences of imprisonment for multiple convictions of assault and/or homicide offenses against more than one person

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2013-A9895 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7482
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง70.25, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2015-2016: S3694
2017-2018: S2159
2019-2020: S1252
2021-2022: S2947

2013-A9895 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the imposition of consecutive sentences of imprisonment for multiple convictions of assault and/or homicide offenses against more than one person.

2013-A9895 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  9895

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 27, 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 sentences of  imprisonment
  for one or more convictions of assault and 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  OR  IF  TWO  OR MORE OF THE SENTENCES ARE FOR
VIOLATIONS OF ARTICLES ONE HUNDRED TWENTY AND/OR ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE
OF THIS CHAPTER AND A SEPARATE PERSON IS THE  VICTIM  OF  EACH  OFFENSE,
must run concurrently.
  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.
                                                           LBD15210-01-4

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