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Assembly Bill A1125

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Provides where court imposes certain sentence for certain misdemeanors and felonies, the court may impose a sentence of probation or conditional discharge

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2017-A1125 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §60.01, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A2510
2011-2012: A2842
2013-2014: A3957
2015-2016: A1620
2019-2020: A3097
2021-2022: A1427

2017-A1125 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that where a court imposes a certain sentence for certain misdemeanors and felonies, the court may impose a sentence of probation or conditional discharge provided that the term of probation or conditional discharge together with the term of imprisonment shall not exceed the term of probation or conditional discharge.

2017-A1125 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1125
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 10, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. PRETLOW -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation  to  revocable  sentences  of
   probation or conditional discharge and imprisonment
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Paragraph (d) of subdivision 2  of  section  60.01  of  the
 penal  law,  as amended by chapter 65 of the laws of 1982, is amended to
 read as follows:
   (d) In any case where the court imposes a sentence of imprisonment not
 in excess of sixty days[,] for a CLASS B misdemeanor, OR NOT  IN  EXCESS
 OF NINETY DAYS FOR A CLASS A MISDEMEANOR, or not in excess of [six] NINE
 months  for a felony or in the case of a sentence of intermittent impri-
 sonment not in excess of four months, it may also impose a  sentence  of
 probation  or  conditional discharge provided that the term of probation
 or conditional discharge together with the term  of  imprisonment  shall
 not  exceed the term of probation or conditional discharge authorized by
 article sixty-five of this chapter. The sentence of  imprisonment  shall
 be a condition of and run concurrently with the sentence of probation or
 conditional discharge.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
 ing  the  date on which it shall have become a law, and shall apply only
 to offenses committed on or after such date.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD04430-01-7

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