Bill Text: NY S01489 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Changes the juvenile delinquent status age, found in the Family Court Act, from sixteen to seventeen years of age.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - REFERRED TO CHILDREN AND FAMILIES [S01489 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-S01489-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K
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1489
2015-2016 Regular Sessions
I N S E N A T E
January 13, 2015
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Introduced by Sen. PARKER -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Children and Families
AN ACT to amend the family court act, in relation to changing the juve-
nile delinquent status age from sixteen to seventeen
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 301.2 of the family court act, as
2 added by chapter 920 of the laws of 1982, is amended to read as follows:
3 1. "Juvenile delinquent" means a person over seven and less than
4 [sixteen] SEVENTEEN years of age, who, having committed an act that
5 would constitute a crime if committed by an adult, (a) is not criminally
6 responsible for such conduct by reason of infancy, or (b) is the defend-
7 ant in an action ordered removed from a criminal court to the family
8 court pursuant to article seven hundred twenty-five of the criminal
9 procedure law.
10 S 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day next succeeding
11 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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