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Assembly Bill A7466

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Provides for the expungement of syringe convictions

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2023-A7466 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S502
Law Section:
Criminal Procedure Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §160.50, CP L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A9987, S8592
2025-2026: A2601, S1946

2023-A7466 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for the expungement of syringe convictions of criminally possessing a hypodermic instrument.

2023-A7466 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7466
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                               May 24, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. KELLES, SEAWRIGHT, SAYEGH, SIMON, STECK, PAULIN,
   GALLAGHER, VANEL, HEVESI, OTIS, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, EPSTEIN,  CRUZ,  GLICK
   -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN  ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to the expunge-
   ment of syringe convictions

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Subparagraph  (vi)  of  paragraph (k) of subdivision 3 of
 section 160.50 of the criminal procedure law, as amended by  chapter  92
 of the laws of 2021, is amended and a new subparagraph (vii) is added to
 read as follows:
   (vi)  the  conviction  was  for  an offense defined in section 222.10,
 222.15, 222.25 or 222.45 of the penal law[.]; OR
   (VII) THE CONVICTION WAS FOR A VIOLATION  OF  AN  OFFENSE  DEFINED  IN
 FORMER  SECTION  220.45  OF THE PENAL LAW PRIOR TO THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF
 THIS SUBPARAGRAPH.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
 it shall have become a law.
 
 
 
 

  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02854-01-3

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