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                              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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