Assembly Actions -
Lowercase Senate Actions - UPPERCASE |
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Dec 12, 2019 |
signed chap.634 |
Dec 06, 2019 |
delivered to governor |
May 15, 2019 |
returned to senate passed assembly |
May 07, 2019 |
ordered to third reading cal.253 substituted for a5937 |
May 07, 2019 |
substituted by s3889 |
May 02, 2019 |
advanced to third reading cal.253 |
Apr 30, 2019 |
reported |
Feb 20, 2019 |
referred to codes |
Assembly Bill A5937
Signed By Governor2019-2020 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
GALEF
Archive: Last Bill Status Via S3889 - Signed by Governor
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
Votes
co-Sponsors
Michael Cusick
Anthony D'Urso
Kenneth Zebrowski
Jonathan Jacobson
multi-Sponsors
Steven Englebright
2019-A5937 (ACTIVE) - Details
2019-A5937 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ S. 3889 A. 5937 2019-2020 Regular Sessions S E N A T E - A S S E M B L Y February 20, 2019 ___________ IN SENATE -- Introduced by Sen. CARLUCCI -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes IN ASSEMBLY -- Introduced by M. of A. GALEF -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to a "problem solving court" THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. Subdivision 4 of section 170.15 of the criminal procedure law, as amended by chapter 67 of the laws of 2000, is amended to read as follows: 4. Notwithstanding any provision of this section to the contrary, in any county outside a city having a population of one million or more, upon or after arraignment of a defendant on an information, a simplified information, a prosecutor's information or a misdemeanor complaint pend- ing in a local criminal court, such court may, upon motion of the defendant and [with the consent of the] AFTER GIVING THE district attor- ney AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE HEARD, order that the action be removed from the court in which the matter is pending to another local criminal court in the same county which has been designated a [drug] court FORMED TO ADDRESS A MATTER OF SPECIAL CONCERN BASED UPON THE STATUS OF THE DEFEND- ANT OR THE VICTIM, COMMONLY KNOWN AS A "PROBLEM SOLVING COURT," INCLUD- ING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, DRUG COURT, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE COURT, YOUTH COURT, MENTAL HEALTH COURT, AND VETERANS COURT, by the chief administra- tor of the courts, and such [drug] PROBLEM SOLVING court may then conduct such action to [judgement] JUDGMENT or other final disposition; provided, however, that an order of removal issued under this subdivi- sion shall not take effect until five days after the date the order is issued unless, prior to such effective date, the [drug] PROBLEM SOLVING court notifies the court that issued the order that: EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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