Bill Text: NY A03112 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the age for youthful offender status.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to codes [A03112 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A03112-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3112
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 26, 2017
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        Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes
        AN  ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to the age of a
          youthful offender
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Subdivision 1 of section 720.10 of the criminal procedure
     2  law, as amended by chapter 411 of the laws of 1979, is amended  to  read
     3  as follows:
     4    1.  "Youth"  means  a person charged with a crime alleged to have been
     5  committed when he or she was at least sixteen years old  and  less  than
     6  [nineteen]  twenty-one  years old or a person charged with being a juve-
     7  nile offender as defined in subdivision forty-two  of  section  1.20  of
     8  this chapter.
     9    §  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
    10  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD03424-01-7