Bill Text: NY A02341 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Authorizes imposition of a sentence of conditional discharge pending the completion of a substance abuse treatment program licensed by the office of alcoholism and substance abuse services and approved by the division of probation and correctional alternatives for first or second conviction of certain controlled substance possession or marihuana possession offenses provided such offender has no prior violent felony convictions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to codes [A02341 Detail]

Download: New_York-2021-A02341-Introduced.html



                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          2341

                               2021-2022 Regular Sessions

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                    January 14, 2021
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by M. of A. AUBRY -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the executive law, the criminal procedure  law  and  the
          penal  law,  in  relation  to  authorizing  a  sentence of conditional
          discharge pending completion of a substance  abuse  treatment  program
          for first and second time drug offenders

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section  249-a
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  249-a.  Substance  abuse treatment alternative programs for certain
     4  offenders. 1. The director shall enter into agreements with  residential
     5  substance abuse treatment programs to provide for the care and treatment
     6  of  eligible  offenders sentenced pursuant to section 60.14 of the penal
     7  law.
     8    2. Such programs shall be licensed by the  office  of  alcoholism  and
     9  substance  abuse  services  and  shall  be  approved  by the division of
    10  probation and correctional alternatives.
    11    3. Upon the satisfactory completion of the course  of  treatment,  the
    12  eligible  offender  shall have the court imposed sentence of conditional
    13  discharge terminated in accordance with the provisions of section 410.90
    14  of the criminal procedure law.
    15    § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 3 of section 390.30 of the  criminal
    16  procedure law, as added by chapter 14 of the laws of 1985, is amended to
    17  read as follows:
    18    (a) The report of the pre-sentence investigation must contain an anal-
    19  ysis  of as much of the information gathered in the investigation as the
    20  agency that conducted the investigation deems relevant to  the  question
    21  of  sentence.    Where appropriate, the report shall include a treatment
    22  plan including but not  limited  to  a  listing  of  available  licensed
    23  substance abuse programs to provide for the care and treatment of offen-

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD00484-01-1

        A. 2341                             2

     1  ders  sentenced  in accordance with the provisions of subdivision one of
     2  section 60.14 of the penal law.  The report must also include any  other
     3  [imformation]  information that the court directs to be included and the
     4  material  required  by  paragraph (b) of this subdivision which shall be
     5  considered part of the report.
     6    § 3. The penal law is amended by adding a new section 60.14 to read as
     7  follows:
     8  § 60.14 Authorized depositions;  criminal  possession  of  a  controlled
     9              substance.
    10    1.  The  sentence  of  any  person convicted of a violation of section
    11  220.03 of this chapter, criminal possession of a controlled substance in
    12  the seventh degree, section 220.06 of this chapter, criminal  possession
    13  of a controlled substance in the fifth degree, or section 221.20 of this
    14  chapter,  criminal  possession  of  marihuana  in  the third degree, for
    15  either the first or second time who has no prior conviction for  any  of
    16  the  other provisions  of article two hundred twenty of this chapter and
    17  also has no prior  violent  felony  conviction  shall  be  conditionally
    18  discharged  provided  such  person  agrees  to  attend, and successfully
    19  completes an alternative program of substance abuse  treatment  approved
    20  in  accordance  with  section  two hundred forty-nine-a of the executive
    21  law.
    22    2. The court shall impose such a sentence on the  condition  that  the
    23  offender  participate in a substance abuse treatment alternative program
    24  for a specified period of time as determined by the court.
    25    3. Upon completion of a course of treatment, the court shall terminate
    26  the sentence in accordance with the provisions of section 410.90 of  the
    27  criminal  procedure  law.  If  the  court  determines  that the offender
    28  absconded from the substance abuse treatment alternative program or that
    29  the sentence is no longer suitable  because  it  endangers  the  safety,
    30  security or order of such treatment facility or that the offender other-
    31  wise violates the terms and conditions of the sentence, the sentence may
    32  be  revoked. Upon revocation, the offender shall be sentenced in accord-
    33  ance with the other provisions of this  chapter  applicable  to  persons
    34  convicted  of  criminal possession of a controlled substance or criminal
    35  possession of marihuana, as the case may be.
    36    4. The court shall conduct an ongoing evaluation of the  program.  The
    37  court  shall  undertake  studies  in  conjunction  with  the division of
    38  probation and correctional alternatives, the division of parole and  the
    39  office  of  alcoholism  and  substance abuse services to ensure that the
    40  programmatic objectives are met.
    41    § 4. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    42  it shall have become a law.
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