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Assembly Bill A1794

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Increases the age of a person deemed a youth for youthful offender status

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2013-A1794 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6524
Current Committee:
Assembly Rules
Law Section:
Criminal Procedure Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง720.10, CP L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: A10267
2015-2016: A5022, S1010
2017-2018: A4743, S4129
2019-2020: A5871

2013-A1794 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the age of a person from nineteen to twenty-two to be deemed a youth for youthful offender status.

2013-A1794 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  1794

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                               (PREFILED)

                             January 9, 2013
                               ___________

Introduced  by  M.  of A. O'DONNELL, JAFFEE -- read once and referred to
  the Committee on Codes

AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in  relation  to  increasing
  the age of a person deemed a youth for youthful offender status

  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  was at least sixteen years old and less than [nine-
teen] TWENTY-TWO years old or a person charged  with  being  a  juvenile
offender  as  defined  in  subdivision forty-two of section 1.20 of this
chapter.
  S 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
have become a law.





 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD01673-01-3

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