Bill Text: NY A03779 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 3779 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Requires that following the acquittal after trial or the sentencing of any defendant for a felony, the clerk of the court, or such clerk's designee, shall mail a written summary of the disposition of such felony to any victim who was not present at the time that the defendant was sentenced or acquitted after trial.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to codes [A03779 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-A03779-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          3779
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 30, 2017
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by M. of A. AUBRY -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes
        AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law,  in  relation  to  notifying
          certain crime victims of the disposition of criminal trial
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 380.50 of the  criminal  procedure
     2  law is amended by adding a new paragraph (g) to read as follows:
     3    (g)  Following  the  acquittal  after  trial  or the sentencing of any
     4  defendant for a felony, the clerk of the court, or such  clerk's  desig-
     5  nee,  shall  mail a written summary of the disposition of such felony to
     6  any victim who was not present at the time such defendant was  sentenced
     7  or acquitted after trial.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
     9  it shall have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08258-01-7