Bill Text: NY A09520 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to preliminary proceedings involving apparently eligible juvenile offenders.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-10 - referred to codes [A09520 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A09520-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 9520 IN ASSEMBLY March 10, 2016 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- (at request of the Office of Court Administration) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to preliminary proceedings involving apparently eligible juvenile offenders The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 720.15 of the criminal procedure 2 law, as amended by chapter 774 of the laws of 1985, is amended to read 3 as follows: 4 3. The provisions of subdivisions one and two of this section requir- 5 ing or authorizing the accusatory instrument filed against a youth to be 6 sealed, and the arraignment and all proceedings in the action to be 7 conducted in private shall not apply in connection with a pending charge 8 of committing any felony offense as defined in the penal law, except 9 where the youth is a juvenile offender and the accusatory instrument is 10 pending in a local criminal court. The provisions of subdivision one 11 requiring the accusatory instrument filed against a youth to be sealed 12 shall not apply where such youth has previously been adjudicated a 13 youthful offender or convicted of a crime. 14 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately and shall apply to crimi- 15 nal actions commenced on or after such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13991-01-6
