Assembly Bill A10147

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Changes the timing of certain discovery requirements to sixty days prior to trial

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly 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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2023-A10147 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Criminal Procedure Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §245.10, CP L

2023-A10147 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Changes the timing of certain discovery requirements to sixty days prior to trial.

2023-A10147 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   10147
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 10, 2024
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. K. Brown) --
   read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN  ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to changing the
   timing of certain discovery requirements to sixty days prior to trial
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section  1.  Paragraphs (i) and (ii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 1
 of section 245.10 of the criminal procedure law, as amended by section 1
 of part HHH of chapter 56 of the laws of 2020, are amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   (i) When a defendant is in custody during the pendency of the criminal
 case,  the  prosecution  shall perform its initial discovery obligations
 [within twenty calendar days after the  defendant's  arraignment  on  an
 indictment, superior court information, prosecutor's information, infor-
 mation,   simplified   information,   misdemeanor  complaint  or  felony
 complaint] NO LATER THAN SIXTY DAYS BEFORE  THE  FIRST  SCHEDULED  TRIAL
 DATE.
   (ii)  When  the defendant is not in custody during the pendency of the
 criminal case, the prosecution shall perform its initial discovery obli-
 gations [within thirty-five calendar days after the defendant's arraign-
 ment on an indictment, superior court information, prosecutor's informa-
 tion, information,  simplified  information,  misdemeanor  complaint  or
 felony  complaint]  NO  LATER THAN SIXTY DAYS BEFORE THE FIRST SCHEDULED
 TRIAL DATE.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15309-01-4

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