Bill Text: NY A09895 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes the imposition of consecutive sentences of imprisonment for multiple convictions of assault and/or homicide offenses against more than one person.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-05-27 - referred to codes [A09895 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A09895-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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9895
I N A S S E M B L Y
May 27, 2014
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Introduced by M. of A. SKARTADOS -- read once and referred to the
Committee on Codes
AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to sentences of imprisonment
for one or more convictions of assault and homicide offenses
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 70.25 of the penal law, as amended
2 by chapter 56 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows:
3 2. When more than one sentence of imprisonment is imposed on a person
4 for two or more offenses committed through a single act or omission, or
5 through an act or omission which in itself constituted one of the
6 offenses and also was a material element of the other, the sentences,
7 except if one or more of such sentences is for a violation of section
8 270.20 of this chapter OR IF TWO OR MORE OF THE SENTENCES ARE FOR
9 VIOLATIONS OF ARTICLES ONE HUNDRED TWENTY AND/OR ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIVE
10 OF THIS CHAPTER AND A SEPARATE PERSON IS THE VICTIM OF EACH OFFENSE,
11 must run concurrently.
12 S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
13 ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15210-01-4
