Assembly Bill A7724

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to allowing for the conditional examination of any witness who is of advanced age

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2017-A7724 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Criminal Procedure Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §660.20, CP L

2017-A7724 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to allowing for the conditional examination of any witness who is of advanced age, which is defined as a person seventy-five years of age or older.

2017-A7724 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7724
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 11, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. WALLACE -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to allowing  for
   the  conditional  examination of any witness who is of "advanced age",
   this being defined as a person seventy-five years of age or older

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 2 of section 660.20 of the criminal procedure
 law is amended to read as follows:
   2.  Will not be amenable or responsive to legal process  or  available
 as  a  witness  at  a  time  when  his  OR HER testimony will be sought,
 [either] because he OR SHE is:
   (a)  About to leave the state and not return for a substantial  period
 of time; [or]
   (b)  Physically ill or incapacited[.]; OR
   (C)  OF AN ADVANCED AGE, WHICH FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS SECTION, SHALL
 MEAN SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD11430-01-7

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