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Assembly Bill A7693A

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Permits sentences for two or more crimes committed through a single act to run consecutively when one of such crimes is a homicide

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2017-A7693 - Details

Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §70.25, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A9150
2015-2016: A317

2017-A7693 - Summary

Permits sentences for two or more crimes to run consecutively, when one of such crimes is a homicide.

2017-A7693 - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7693
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 9, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SKARTADOS,  BARRETT,  LALOR -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to consecutive sentences  for
   homicide offenses
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 70.25 of the penal law, as amended
 by chapter 56 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows:
   2. When more than one sentence of imprisonment is imposed on a  person
 for  two or more offenses committed through a single act or omission, or
 through an act or omission  which  in  itself  constituted  one  of  the
 offenses  and  also  was a material element of the other, the sentences,
 except if one or more of such sentences is for a  violation  of  section
 270.20  of  this chapter, must run concurrently.  CONSECUTIVE SENTENCING
 WILL BE APPLIED WHEN A DEFENDANT IS FOUND GUILTY OF TWO OR  MORE  COUNTS
 OF  VIOLATION  OF  SECTION  125.12 (VEHICULAR MANSLAUGHTER IN THE SECOND
 DEGREE) OR OF  TWO  OR  MORE  COUNTS  OF  VIOLATION  OF  SECTION  125.15
 (MANSLAUGHTER IN THE SECOND DEGREE).
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01549-02-7

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2017-A7693A (ACTIVE) - Details

Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §70.25, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: A9150
2015-2016: A317

2017-A7693A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Permits sentences for two or more crimes to run consecutively, when one of such crimes is a homicide.

2017-A7693A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  7693--A
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                May 9, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SKARTADOS,  BARRETT,  LALOR -- read once and
   referred to the Committee  on  Codes  --  committee  discharged,  bill
   amended,  ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
   tee
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to consecutive sentences  for
   homicide offenses

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 70.25 of the penal law, as amended
 by chapter 56 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows:
   2. When more than one sentence of imprisonment is imposed on a  person
 for  two or more offenses committed through a single act or omission, or
 through an act or omission  which  in  itself  constituted  one  of  the
 offenses  and  also  was a material element of the other, the sentences,
 except if one or more of such sentences is for a  violation  of  section
 270.20  of  this chapter, must run concurrently.  CONSECUTIVE SENTENCING
 WILL BE APPLIED WHEN A DEFENDANT IS FOUND GUILTY OF TWO OR  MORE  COUNTS
 OF  VIOLATION  OF  SECTION  125.12 (VEHICULAR MANSLAUGHTER IN THE SECOND
 DEGREE) OR OF TWO OR MORE COUNTS OF  VIOLATION  OF  SUBDIVISION  ONE  OF
 SECTION 125.15 (MANSLAUGHTER IN THE SECOND DEGREE).
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01549-04-7

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