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Assembly Bill A5755

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Authorizes the court to order sexual offenders on probation to terms of imprisonment which run consecutively to sentences already being served

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2019-A5755 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §60.01, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A2277
2011-2012: A2246
2013-2014: A3047
2015-2016: A7131
2017-2018: A4524
2021-2022: A4316
2023-2024: A3293
2025-2026: A4215

2019-A5755 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Authorizes the court to order sexual offenders on probation, where such probation has been revoked, to terms of imprisonment which run consecutively to sentences already being served.

2019-A5755 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   5755
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 14, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. LAWRENCE -- read once and referred to the Commit-
   tee on Codes
 
 AN  ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to consecutive sentences for
   sexual offenders on probation
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 60.01 of the penal law, as amended
 by chapter 548 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows:
   4.  In  any  case  where  a  person  has been sentenced to a period of
 probation imposed pursuant to section 65.00 of this [chapter] TITLE,  if
 the  part  of  the  sentence that provides for probation is revoked, the
 court must sentence such person to imprisonment or to  the  sentence  of
 imprisonment  and probation as provided for in paragraph (d) of subdivi-
 sion two of this section; PROVIDED,  HOWEVER,  EVERY  SUCH  SENTENCE  OF
 IMPRISONMENT  FOR  A PERSON CONVICTED OF AN OFFENSE CONTAINED IN ARTICLE
 ONE HUNDRED THIRTY OF THIS CHAPTER OR SECTION 255.25, 263.05, 263.10  OR
 263.15  OF  THIS  CHAPTER  SHALL  RUN CONSECUTIVELY TO ANY OTHER TERM OF
 IMPRISONMENT IMPOSED FOR ANOTHER SUCH OFFENSE BY A COURT OF THIS STATE.
   § 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.
                                                            LBD09613-01-9

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