Bill Text: NY A02033 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases the minimum bail for sexual offenses of a school official against a student to $200,000.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to codes [A02033 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A02033-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2033
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 22, 2019
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        Introduced  by M. of A. ORTIZ, D'URSO, COLTON, JAFFEE -- Multi-Sponsored
          by -- M. of A.  SIMON -- read once and referred to  the  Committee  on
          Codes
        AN  ACT  to  amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to increasing
          the minimum bail for sexual offenses of a school  official  against  a
          student
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The criminal procedure law  is  amended  by  adding  a  new
     2  section 520.50 to read as follows:
     3  § 520.50 Minimum bail; school official sexual offenses against students.
     4    Where  a court fixes bail for an employee of a school district accused
     5  of an offense defined in article one hundred thirty of  the  penal  law,
     6  and where the alleged victim of such offense is a student, the amount of
     7  bail fixed shall be no less than two hundred thousand dollars.
     8    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD05846-01-9