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Senate Bill S9970

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Requires an annual report on perpetrators of violent crimes resulting in the death of a crime victim

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2025-S9970 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Executive Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §837-a, Exec L

2025-S9970 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the division of criminal justice services to present an annual report on perpetrators of violent crimes resulting in the death of a crime victim.

2025-S9970 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S9970 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9970
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              April 20, 2026
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  MURRAY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to  requiring  an  annual
   report  on  perpetrators of violent crimes resulting in the death of a
   crime victim
 
   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section 837-a of the executive law is amended by adding a
 new subdivision 10 to read as follows:
   10. PRESENT TO THE GOVERNOR, TEMPORARY PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE, MINOR-
 ITY LEADER OF THE SENATE, SPEAKER OF THE ASSEMBLY AND THE MINORITY LEAD-
 ER OF THE ASSEMBLY  AN  ANNUAL  REPORT  ANALYZING  THE  PERPETRATORS  OF
 VIOLENT  CRIMES  RESULTING  IN  THE DEATH OF A CRIME VICTIM. SUCH REPORT
 SHALL INCLUDE THE CRIMES WITH WHICH THE DEFENDANT WAS CHARGED, THE COUN-
 TY WITHIN WHICH THE INDICTMENT OR SUPERIOR COURT INFORMATION WAS  FILED,
 THE  DISPOSITION  THEREOF INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, AS THE CASE MAY
 BE, DISMISSAL, ACQUITTAL AND THE OFFENSE TO WHICH THE DEFENDANT  PLEADED
 GUILTY,  THE  OFFENSE THE DEFENDANT WAS CONVICTED OF AFTER TRIAL AND THE
 SENTENCE IMPOSED, THE PAROLE OR PROBATIONARY STATUS OF THE DEFENDANT  AT
 THE  TIME OF INDICTMENT, THE NUMBER OF PRIOR FELONY ARRESTS, AND THE AGE
 OF THE DEFENDANT AT THE TIME OF EACH SUCH ARREST.    SUCH  REPORT  SHALL
 EXCLUDE  DOMESTIC  VIOLENCE-RELATED  DEATHS,  AS SUCH TERM IS DEFINED BY
 SUBDIVISION TEN OF SECTION FIVE HUNDRED SEVENTY-FIVE  OF  THIS  CHAPTER.
 EACH  ANNUAL  REPORT SHALL PERTAIN TO THE IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING YEAR AND
 BE PRESENTED NO LATER THAN JUNE FIRST OF EACH YEAR.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD15594-01-6

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