Assembly Bill A5193

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Increases the crime victim assistance fee, creates a crime victim's lien and creates a crime victim's assistance account

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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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2019-A5193 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§80.00, 80.05 & 60.35, Pen L; add §94-c, St Fin L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A6571
2011-2012: A7286
2013-2014: A6493
2015-2016: A3716
2017-2018: A5318

2019-A5193 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Increases the mandatory surcharge and the crime victim's assistance fee which is levied upon any person convicted of a crime or violation in this state; creates a crime victim's lien which allows such recovery against a convicted offender in the amount of the unpaid portion of the mandatory surcharge or the crime victim's assistance fee; creates a crime victim's assistance account.

2019-A5193 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5193
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 7, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. DiPIETRO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Codes
 
 AN  ACT to amend the penal law and the state finance law, in relation to
   increasing the crime victim assistance fee, creating a crime  victim's
   lien and creating a crime victim's assistance account

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 80.00 of the penal law is amended by adding  a  new
 subdivision 8 to read as follows:
   8.  THE  TERM  "FINE"  AS  DEFINED IN THIS SECTION SHALL NOT INCLUDE A
 MANDATORY SURCHARGE OR A CRIME  VICTIM  ASSISTANCE  FEE  AS  DEFINED  IN
 SECTION 60.35 OF THIS TITLE.
   §  2. Section 80.05 of the penal law is amended by adding a new subdi-
 vision 7 to read as follows:
   7. THE TERM "FINE" AS DEFINED IN THIS  SECTION  SHALL  NOT  INCLUDE  A
 MANDATORY  SURCHARGE  OR  A  CRIME  VICTIM  ASSISTANCE FEE AS DEFINED IN
 SECTION 60.35 OF THIS TITLE.
   § 3. Section 60.35 of the penal law, as amended by section 1 of part E
 of chapter 56 of the laws of 2004, subparagraphs (i), (ii) and (iii)  of
 paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision 1 as amended by section 1 of part DD and
 subdivision 10 as amended by section 2 of part Y of chapter  56  of  the
 laws  of  2008, paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 320
 of the laws of 2006, subdivision 4 as amended by chapter 525 of the laws
 of 2013, and subdivision 8 as amended by section 121  of  subpart  B  of
 part C of chapter 62 of the laws of 2011, is amended to read as follows:
 § 60.35 Mandatory surcharge, sex offender registration fee, DNA databank
           fee,  supplemental  sex  offender  victim fee and crime victim
           assistance fee required in certain cases.
   1. (a) Except as provided in section  eighteen  hundred  nine  of  the
 vehicle  and  traffic law and section 27.12 of the parks, recreation and
 historic preservation law, whenever  proceedings  in  an  administrative
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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