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Assembly Bill A5066

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to an accusatory instrument filed against a youth to be sealed except when the youth has previously been adjudicated a youthful offender for a felony offense

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2017-A5066 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Criminal Procedure Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §720.15, CP L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A8973
2015-2016: A5021
2019-2020: A8750

2017-A5066 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to an accusatory instrument filed against a youth to be sealed except when the youth has previously been adjudicated a youthful offender for a felony offense.

2017-A5066 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5066
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 6, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A. O'DONNELL, WEPRIN, SEPULVEDA -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure  law,  in  relation  to  youthful
   offender procedure and accusatory instruments
 
   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.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and  shall  apply  to  all
 accusatory instruments filed on or after such effective date.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD09392-01-7

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