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Assembly Bill A2601

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Provides for the expungement of syringe convictions

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2025-A2601 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1946
Law Section:
Criminal Procedure Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §160.50, CP L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A9987, S8592
2023-2024: A7466, S502

2025-A2601 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the expungement of syringe convictions of criminally possessing a hypodermic instrument.

2025-A2601 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2601
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 21, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. KELLES, SEAWRIGHT, SAYEGH, SIMON, STECK, PAULIN,
   GALLAGHER, VANEL, HEVESI, OTIS, GONZALEZ-ROJAS, EPSTEIN, CRUZ,  GLICK,
   ROSENTHAL,  BORES,  GIBBS,  TAPIA, BURDICK, LEVENBERG -- 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.
                                                            LBD00061-01-5

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