Assembly Bill A7584

Signed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to sealing petty offenses

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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-A7584 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S6347
Law Section:
Criminal Procedure Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §160.55, CP L

2019-A7584 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to sealing petty offenses and making certain technical changes.

2019-A7584 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7584
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 10, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  LENTOL -- (at request of the Office of Court
   Administration) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to sealing petty
   offenses
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 1 of section 160.55 of
 the  criminal  procedure  law,  as amended by chapter 169 of the laws of
 1994, is amended to read as follows:
   [Upon] REGARDLESS OF THE CLASS  OF  OFFENSE  FOR  WHICH  A  PERSON  IS
 INITIALLY CHARGED, UPON the termination of a criminal action or proceed-
 ing  against  a  person  by  the  conviction of such person of a traffic
 infraction or a violation,  other  than  a  violation  of  loitering  as
 described in paragraph (d) [or (e)] of subdivision one of section 160.10
 of  this [chapter] ARTICLE or the violation of operating a motor vehicle
 while ability impaired as described in subdivision one of section eleven
 hundred ninety-two of the vehicle and traffic law, unless  the  district
 attorney upon motion with not less than five [days] DAYS' notice to such
 person  or  his  or her attorney demonstrates to the satisfaction of the
 court that the interests of justice require otherwise, or the  court  on
 its  own  motion  with  not  less  than five [days] DAYS' notice to such
 person or his or her attorney determines that the interests  of  justice
 require  otherwise  and states the reasons for such determination on the
 record, the clerk of the court wherein such criminal action or  proceed-
 ing  was  terminated  shall  immediately  notify the commissioner of the
 division of criminal justice services and the heads of  all  appropriate
 police  departments  and  other law enforcement agencies that the action
 has been terminated by such conviction. Upon receipt of notification  of
 such termination:
   §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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