Assembly Bill A4998

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Relates to a negotiated sentence of imprisonment

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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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2021-A4998 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Criminal Procedure Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §390.20, CP L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A6920
2019-2020: A1216
2023-2024: A1090

2021-A4998 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides that a pre-sentence investigation and written report thereon shall not be required where a negotiated sentence of imprisonment for a term of three hundred sixty-five days or less has been mutually agreed upon by the parties with consent of the judge, as a result of a conviction or revocation of a sentence of probation; removes the requirement of solely in a city with a population of one million or more.

2021-A4998 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   4998
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             February 10, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to negotiated
   sentence of imprisonment
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Subdivision 5 of section 390.20 of the criminal procedure
 law, as added by chapter 556 of the laws of 2013, is amended to read  as
 follows:
   5.  Negotiated  sentence  of imprisonment. [In any city having a popu-
 lation of one million or more and notwithstanding]  NOTWITHSTANDING  the
 provisions  of  subdivision  one  or two of this section, a pre-sentence
 investigation and written report thereon shall not be required  where  a
 negotiated  sentence  of imprisonment for a term of three hundred sixty-
 five days or less has been mutually agreed  upon  by  the  parties  with
 consent  of  the  judge,  as a result of a conviction or revocation of a
 sentence of probation.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD01843-01-1

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