Assembly Bill A9577

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to penalties for the promotion of prison contraband

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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-A9577 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S2572
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§205.00 & 205.25, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S7246
2015-2016: S4382
2019-2020: S451
2021-2022: S2250
2023-2024: S2524

2017-A9577 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to penalties for the promotion of prison contraband; amends the definition of dangerous contraband and amends the promotion of prison contraband in the first degree to a class C felony.

2017-A9577 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9577
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 23, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. WOERNER -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to the  promotion  of  prison
   contraband
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 205.00 and section 205.25  of  the
 penal law are amended to read as follows:
   4.  "Dangerous  contraband"  means contraband which is capable of such
 use as may endanger the safety or security of a  detention  facility  or
 any  person  therein  WHICH  SHALL  INCLUDE, BUT SHALL NOT BE LIMITED TO
 FIREARMS AND OTHER DANGEROUS WEAPONS AS DEFINED  IN  SECTION  265.00  OF
 THIS  PART,  DESTRUCTIVE  DEVICES  AS  DEFINED  IN  26  USC §5845(F) AND
 CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES AS DEFINED IN SECTION 220.00 OF THIS PART.
 § 205.25 Promoting prison contraband in the first degree.
   A person is guilty of promoting prison contraband in the first  degree
 when:
   1. He OR SHE knowingly and unlawfully introduces any dangerous contra-
 band into a detention facility; or
   2. Being a person confined in a detention facility, he OR SHE knowing-
 ly and unlawfully makes, obtains or possesses any dangerous contraband.
   Promoting prison contraband in the first degree is a class [D] C felo-
 ny.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD08220-03-8

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