Senate Bill S7699

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Enhance sentences for certain offenses involving weapons on or near school grounds

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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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2023-S7699 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:
A8163
Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Add §70.11, amd §100.08, Pen L; amd §§380.1 & 381.3, Fam Ct Act; amd §§720.35, 720.15, 510.10 & 722.23, add §510.55, CP L; amd §212, R & SS L; amd §6342, CPLR

2023-S7699 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Enhances sentences for certain offenses involving weapons on or near school grounds; relates to the availability of certain records of juvenile delinquents or youthful offenders; relates to annual earnings limitations for certain retired police officers employed by a school district or a board of cooperative educational services; adds a defendant's identifiable ties to the community and state to consideration for whether to fix a securing order, including residence, employment, enrollment with an educational institution, and immediate family

2023-S7699 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2023-S7699 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                   7699
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             October 13, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  GRIFFO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to  enhancing  sentences  for
   certain offenses involving weapons on or near school grounds; to amend
   the  family  court  act and the criminal procedure law, in relation to
   the availability of certain  records;  to  amend  the  retirement  and
   social  security  law,  in relation to annual earnings limitations for
   certain retired police officers; to amend the criminal procedure  law,
   in  relation to adding a defendant's identifiable ties to the communi-
   ty, state and/or county to consider whether to fix a  securing  order;
   to  amend  the civil practice law and rules and the criminal procedure
   law, in relation to allowing courts  to  hold  a  pre-trial  community
   safety and well-being hearing; to amend the criminal procedure law, in
   relation  to  the  court's  consideration of the existence of extraor-
   dinary circumstances and significant physical  injury  in  determining
   whether  to  remove adolescent offenders to family court; to amend the
   criminal procedure law, in relation to adolescent offenders authorized
   to be removed to family court; and to amend the penal law, in relation
   to modifying the crime of criminal solicitation in the third degree
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  The penal law is amended by adding a new section 70.11 to
 read as follows:
 § 70.11 SENTENCES OF IMPRISONMENT FOR WEAPONS OFFENSES ON OR NEAR SCHOOL
           GROUNDS; AGGRAVATING FACTORS.
   MATTERS OCCURRING WHILE ON OR WITHIN  FIVE  THOUSAND  FEET  OF  SCHOOL
 GROUNDS,  AS  DEFINED  IN SUBDIVISION FOURTEEN OF SECTION 220.00 OF THIS
 CHAPTER, SHALL RESULT IN THE FOLLOWING ENHANCEMENT OF SUCH SENTENCE:
   (A) FOR OFFENSES COMMITTED UNDER SECTION 265.01 OF THIS  CHAPTER,  THE
 SENTENCE SHALL REFLECT A CLASS E FELONY;
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD13281-03-3
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