Senate Bill S6365

2021-2022 Legislative Session

Establishes criminal offenses committed against the elderly or disabled persons

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Codes Committee


  • 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-S6365 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§60.35, 120.05, 135.30, 135.45 & 140.10, add Art 261 §§261.00 - 261.40, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2011-2012: S5274
2013-2014: S3906
2015-2016: S3646
2017-2018: S544
2019-2020: S1573
2023-2024: S2525

2021-S6365 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Establishes criminal offenses committed against the elderly or disabled persons.

2021-S6365 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2021-S6365 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6365
 
                        2021-2022 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 26, 2021
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen. HELMING -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to establishing  a  mandatory
   senior  anti-violence services fee imposed upon conviction of a crimi-
   nal offense and offenses against the elderly and disabled

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The section heading and subdivision 1 of section 60.35 of
 the penal law, as amended by section 1 of part E of chapter  56  of  the
 laws  of  2004,  subparagraphs  (i),  (ii) and (iii) of paragraph (a) of
 subdivision 1 as amended by section 1 of part DD of chapter  56  of  the
 laws  of  2008  and paragraph (b) of subdivision 1 as amended by chapter
 320 of the laws of 2006, are amended to read as follows:
   Mandatory surcharge, sex offender registration fee, DNA databank  fee,
 supplemental  sex offender victim fee [and], crime victim assistance AND
 A SENIOR ANTI-VIOLENCE SERVICES fee required in certain cases.
   1. (a) Except as provided in section  eighteen  hundred  nine  of  the
 vehicle  and  traffic law and section 27.12 of the parks, recreation and
 historic preservation law, whenever  proceedings  in  an  administrative
 tribunal or a court of this state result in a conviction for a felony, a
 misdemeanor, or a violation, as these terms are defined in section 10.00
 of  this  chapter,  there  shall  be  levied  at  sentencing a mandatory
 surcharge, sex offender registration fee,  DNA  databank  fee  [and],  a
 crime  victim  assistance fee AND A SENIOR ANTI-VIOLENCE SERVICES FEE in
 addition to any sentence required or permitted  by  law,  in  accordance
 with the following schedule:
   (i)  a person convicted of a felony shall pay a mandatory surcharge of
 three hundred dollars [and], a crime victim assistance  fee  of  twenty-
 five dollars, AND A SENIOR ANTI-VIOLENCE SERVICES FEE OF FIFTY DOLLARS;
   (ii)  a  person  convicted  of  a  misdemeanor  shall  pay a mandatory
 surcharge of one hundred seventy-five  dollars  [and],  a  crime  victim
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
              

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