Senate Bill S8260

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to notification of and engagement with parents in proceedings involving sixteen and seventeen year old defendants in youth parts of superior courts

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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-S8260 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A10855
Current Committee:
Senate Rules
Law Section:
Criminal Procedure Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§120.90, 140.20, 140.27, 140.40, 722.00 & 722.10, CP L

2017-S8260 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to notification of and engagement with parents in proceedings involving sixteen and seventeen year old defendants in youth parts of superior courts.

2017-S8260 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S8260 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8260
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 24, 2018
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by Sen. LANZA -- (at request of the Office of Court Adminis-
   tration) -- read twice and ordered printed, and  when  printed  to  be
   committed to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN  ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to notification
   to, and engagement of, parents in proceedings  involving  sixteen  and
   seventeen year old defendants in youth parts in superior courts

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 120.90 of the  criminal  procedure
 law,  as  amended by section 16 of part WWW of chapter 59 of the laws of
 2017, is amended to read as follows:
   7. Upon arresting a juvenile  offender  or  adolescent  offender,  the
 police  officer  shall  immediately  notify  the  parent or other person
 legally responsible for his OR HER care or the person with  whom  he  OR
 SHE  is domiciled, that the juvenile offender or adolescent offender has
 been arrested, [and] the location of the facility where  he  OR  SHE  is
 being  detained  OR QUESTIONED AND THE LOCATION OF THE COURT WHERE HE OR
 SHE WILL BE ARRAIGNED OR APPEAR, AS WELL AS  THE  DATE  AND  APPROXIMATE
 TIME IF KNOWN.
   §  2.  The opening paragraph of subdivision 6 of section 140.20 of the
 criminal procedure law, as amended by section 20 of part WWW of  chapter
 59 of the laws of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
   Upon  arresting  a juvenile offender or a person sixteen or commencing
 October first, two thousand nineteen, seventeen years of age  without  a
 warrant, the police officer shall immediately notify the parent or other
 person  legally  responsible for his or her care or the person with whom
 he or she is domiciled, that such offender or person has been  arrested,
 and  the  location  of the facility where he or she is being detained OR
 QUESTIONED AND THE LOCATION OF  THE  COURT  WHERE  HE  OR  SHE  WILL  BE
 ARRAIGNED  OR APPEAR, AS WELL AS THE DATE AND APPROXIMATE TIME IF KNOWN.
 If the officer determines that it is necessary to  question  a  juvenile
 offender  or such person, the officer must take him or her to a facility
 designated by the chief administrator of the courts as a suitable  place
 for  the  questioning  of  children  or, upon the consent of a parent or
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
              

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