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Assembly Bill A4918

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Requires palmprints, fingerprints and photographs of juveniles convicted of a felony to be made available by the division of criminal justice services to law enforcement

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2019-A4918 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Family Court Act
Laws Affected:
Amd §354.1, Fam Ct Act
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A4192
2011-2012: A3712
2013-2014: A6127
2015-2016: A4442
2017-2018: A4548

2019-A4918 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires palmprints, fingerprints and photographs of juveniles convicted of a felony to be made available by the division of criminal justice services to law enforcement agencies upon demand.

2019-A4918 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4918
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 5, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. RAMOS -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the family  court  act,  in  relation  to  allowing  law
   enforcement  agencies  access to fingerprints of juveniles adjudicated
   juvenile delinquents for commission of a felony

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1. Subdivision 1 of section 354.1 of the family court act, as
 added by chapter 920 of the laws of 1982, is amended to read as follows:
   1. If a person whose  fingerprints,  palmprints  or  photographs  were
 taken  pursuant  to  section  306.1  or was initially fingerprinted as a
 juvenile offender and the action is subsequently  removed  to  a  family
 court  pursuant  to  article  seven  hundred twenty-five of the criminal
 procedure law is adjudicated to be a juvenile delinquent for  a  felony,
 the  family court shall forward or cause to be forwarded to the division
 of criminal justice services notification  of  such  adjudication  ALONG
 WITH  SUCH  FINGERPRINTS, PALMPRINTS OR PHOTOGRAPHS, WHICH SHALL BE MADE
 AVAILABLE TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES  UPON  DEMAND,  and  such  related
 information  as  may be required by such division, provided, however, in
 the case of a person eleven or twelve years  of  age  such  notification
 shall  be  provided only if the act upon which the adjudication is based
 would constitute a class A or B felony.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day  after  it  shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07460-01-9

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