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Senate Bill S8604

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to consecutive sentencing for certain convictions for sex crimes

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2017-S8604 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10960
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §70.25, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S1358, A8568
2021-2022: S3840
2023-2024: S6066
2025-2026: S1390

2017-S8604 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for consecutive sentencing for certain convictions for sex crimes.

2017-S8604 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S8604 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8604
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                               May 10, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  SERINO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to consecutive sentencing for
   certain convictions
 
   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
 MAY  BE  APPLIED  WHEN A DEFENDANT IS FOUND GUILTY OF TWO OR MORE FELONY
 COUNTS, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED  TO  PREVIOUS  FELONY  CONVICTIONS  OF
 ARTICLE  ONE  HUNDRED  THIRTY  OF THIS CHAPTER OR SECTION 230.34 OF THIS
 CHAPTER, EXCEPT CONSECUTIVE SENTENCING SHALL BE APPLIED WHEN A DEFENDANT
 IS FOUND GUILTY, OR HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY CONVICTED, OF TWO OR MORE COUNTS
 OF ARTICLE TWO HUNDRED SIXTY-THREE OF THIS CHAPTER  OR  SECTION  130.75,
 130.80, 130.95, OR 130.96 OF THIS CHAPTER.
   § 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.
                                                            LBD15787-01-8

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