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Assembly Bill A10732

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Eliminates persons employed by or under the supervision of a district attorney, assistant district attorney, attorney general or assistant attorney general from definition of prosecutor

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2015-A10732 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Judiciary
Law Section:
Judiciary Law
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง499-b, Judy L (as proposed in S.24-B and A.1131-B)

2015-A10732 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Eliminates persons employed by or under the supervision of a district attorney, assistant district attorney, attorney general or assistant attorney general from definition of "prosecutor" for the purposes of the state commission on prosecutorial conduct.

2015-A10732 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

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

                                  10732

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                              June 14, 2016
                               ___________

Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Perry) --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary

AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in  relation  to  the  definition  of
  "prosecutor"  for  purposes  of  the state commission on prosecutorial
  conduct

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

  Section  1.  Subdivision  2  of section 499-b of the judiciary law, as
added by a chapter of the laws of 2016 amending the judiciary law relat-
ing to establishing the commission on prosecutorial conduct, as proposed
in legislative bills numbers S.24-B and A.1131-B, is amended to read  as
follows:
  2.  "Prosecutor"  means  a district attorney or any assistant district
attorney of any county of the state, and the  attorney  general  or  any
assistant  attorney general of the state, [or any individual employed by
or subject to the direction and  supervision  of  a  district  attorney,
assistant  district  attorney,  attorney  general  or assistant attorney
general,] in an action to exact any criminal penalty, fine, sanction  or
forfeiture.
  S  2.  This  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same
manner as a chapter of the laws  of  2016  amending  the  judiciary  law
relating  to  establishing  the  commission on prosecutorial conduct, as
proposed in legislative bills numbers S.24-B and A.1131-B, takes effect.




 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD15887-01-6

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