Bill Text: NY S01358 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for consecutive sentencing for certain convictions for sex crimes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 8-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CODES [S01358 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-S01358-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          1358
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    January 14, 2019
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        Introduced by Sens. SERINO, AKSHAR, AMEDORE, FUNKE, GALLIVAN, RANZENHOF-
          ER, ROBACH, SEWARD -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed
          to be committed to the Committee on Codes
        AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to consecutive sentencing for
          certain convictions
          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, must run concurrently. Consecutive sentencing
     9  may be applied when a defendant is found guilty of two  or  more  felony
    10  counts,  including  but  not  limited  to previous felony convictions of
    11  article one hundred thirty of this chapter or  section  230.34  of  this
    12  chapter, except consecutive sentencing shall be applied when a defendant
    13  is found guilty, or has been previously convicted, of two or more counts
    14  of  article  two  hundred sixty-three of this chapter or section 130.75,
    15  130.80, 130.95, or 130.96 of this chapter.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    17  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.
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