Bill Text: NY S00716 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Senate Bill 716 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Relates to the examination of witnesses.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CODES [S00716 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S00716-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           716
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 9, 2019
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by Sen. GALLIVAN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
        AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation  to  examination
          of witnesses
          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 660.20 of the  criminal  procedure
     2  law is amended to read as follows:
     3    2.    Will not be amenable or responsive to legal process or available
     4  as a witness at a time when his testimony will be sought, either because
     5  he is:
     6    (a)  About to leave the state and not return for a substantial  period
     7  of time; or
     8    (b)  Physically ill or [incapacited.] incapacitated; or
     9    (c)  Of advanced age which, for the purposes of this subdivision shall
    10  mean a person who has attained the age of seventy-five years.
    11    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD02724-01-9