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Assembly Bill A7653

2013-2014 Legislative Session

Relates to sealing court records and allowing confidential court proceedings in all cases where a youth is eligible for a youthful offender adjudication

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2013-A7653 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Criminal Procedure Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง720.15, CP L

2013-A7653 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to sealing court records and allowing confidential court proceedings in all cases where a youth is eligible for a youthful offender adjudication.

2013-A7653 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  7653

                       2013-2014 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              May 29, 2013
                               ___________

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

AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to sealing court
  records and allowing confidential court proceedings in all cases where
  a youth is eligible for a youthful offender adjudication

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

  Section  1.  Subdivision 3 of section 720.15 of the criminal procedure
law, as amended by chapter 774 of the laws of 1985, is amended  to  read
as follows:
  3. [The provisions of subdivisions one and two of this section requir-
ing or authorizing the accusatory instrument filed against a youth to be
sealed,  and  the  arraignment  and  all proceedings in the action to be
conducted in private shall not apply in connection with a pending charge
of committing any felony offense as  defined  in  the  penal  law.]  The
provisions  of subdivision one requiring the accusatory instrument filed
against a youth to be sealed shall not apply where such youth has previ-
ously been adjudicated a youthful  offender  FOR  A  FELONY  OFFENSE  or
convicted of a crime.
  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.
                                                           LBD11246-01-3

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