Assembly Bill A8381A

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to granting certain individuals youthful offender status; repealer

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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-A8381 - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Criminal Procedure Law
Laws Affected:
Rpld §720.15 subs 3 & 4, add §440.48, Art 721 §§721.10 - 721.35, Art 726 §§726.10 - 726.35, amd §§720.10, 720.20, 220.30, 420.30 & 420.35, CP L; amd §§60.00, 60.02, 80.00 & 80.05, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A3536
2023-2024: A4238

2019-A8381 - Summary

Relates to granting certain individuals youthful offender status; adds a new category of individuals eligible for young adult offender status and first offender status.

2019-A8381 - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8381
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 15, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  O'DONNELL  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the  criminal  procedure  law  and  the  penal  law,  in
   relation  to granting certain individuals youthful offender status; to
   add a new category of individuals eligible for  young  adult  offender
   status  and first offender status; and to repeal certain provisions of
   the criminal procedure law relating thereto
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section 720.10 of the criminal procedure law, as added by
 chapter 981 of the laws of 1971, subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 411
 of the laws of 1979, subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 416 of the laws
 of 1986, paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 316 of the
 laws of 2006, subdivision 3 as amended by chapter 264  of  the  laws  of
 2003,  and  subdivisions  4, 5 and 6 as renumbered by chapter 481 of the
 laws of 1978, is amended to read as follows:
 § 720.10 Youthful offender procedure; definition of terms.
   As used in this article, the following terms have the following  mean-
 ings:
   1.  ["Youth"]  "ELIGIBLE  YOUTH"  means  a person charged with a crime
 alleged to have been committed when he OR SHE was at least sixteen years
 old and less than nineteen years old or a person charged  with  being  a
 juvenile offender as defined in subdivision forty-two of section 1.20 of
 this chapter.
   2.  ["Eligible  youth"  means  a  youth  who is eligible to be found a
 youthful offender. Every youth is so eligible unless:
   (a) the conviction to be replaced by a youthful  offender  finding  is
 for  (i)  a  class  A-I or class A-II felony, or (ii) an armed felony as
 defined in subdivision forty-one of section 1.20, except as provided  in
 subdivision  three,  or  (iii) rape in the first degree, criminal sexual

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13234-02-9
              

2019-A8381A (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Criminal Procedure Law
Laws Affected:
Rpld §720.15 subs 3 & 4, add §440.48, Art 721 §§721.10 - 721.35, Art 726 §§726.10 - 726.35, amd §§720.10, 720.20, 220.30, 420.30 & 420.35, CP L; amd §§60.00, 60.02, 80.00 & 80.05, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A3536
2023-2024: A4238

2019-A8381A (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to granting certain individuals youthful offender status; adds a new category of individuals eligible for young adult offender status and first offender status.

2019-A8381A (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                  8381--A
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               June 15, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  O'DONNELL  --  read once and referred to the
   Committee on Codes --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
   reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  criminal  procedure  law  and the penal law, in
   relation to granting certain individuals youthful offender status;  to
   add  a  new  category of individuals eligible for young adult offender
   status and first offender status; and to repeal certain provisions  of
   the criminal procedure law relating thereto
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 720.10 of the criminal procedure law, as  added  by
 chapter 981 of the laws of 1971, subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 411
 of the laws of 1979, subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 416 of the laws
 of 1986, paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 316 of the
 laws  of  2006,  subdivision  3 as amended by chapter 264 of the laws of
 2003, and subdivisions 4, 5 and 6 as renumbered by chapter  481  of  the
 laws of 1978, is amended to read as follows:
 § 720.10 Youthful offender procedure; definition of terms.
   As  used in this article, the following terms have the following mean-
 ings:
   1. ["Youth"] "ELIGIBLE YOUTH" means a  person  charged  with  a  crime
 alleged to have been committed when he OR SHE was at least sixteen years
 old  and  less  than nineteen years old or a person charged with being a
 juvenile offender as defined in subdivision forty-two of section 1.20 of
 this chapter.
   2. ["Eligible youth" means a youth who  is  eligible  to  be  found  a
 youthful offender. Every youth is so eligible unless:
   (a)  the  conviction  to be replaced by a youthful offender finding is
 for (i) a class A-I or class A-II felony, or (ii)  an  armed  felony  as
 defined  in subdivision forty-one of section 1.20, except as provided in
 subdivision three, or (iii) rape in the first  degree,  criminal  sexual

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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