Bill Text: NY A04743 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Increases the age of a person from nineteen to twenty-two to be deemed a youth for youthful offender status and provides that there is a presumption of such status unless the interest of justice requires otherwise and proper notice is given.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-09 - amended on third reading (t) 4743b [A04743 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4743
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 3, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  O'DONNELL,  JAFFEE,  PERRY  -- read once and
          referred to the Committee on Codes
        AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in  relation  to  increasing
          the age of a person deemed a youth for youthful offender status
          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 720.10 of the  criminal  procedure
     2  law,  as  amended by chapter 411 of the laws of 1979, is amended to read
     3  as follows:
     4    1. "Youth" means a person charged with a crime alleged  to  have  been
     5  committed  when  he  was at least sixteen years old and less than [nine-
     6  teen] twenty-two years old or a person charged  with  being  a  juvenile
     7  offender  as  defined  in  subdivision forty-two of section 1.20 of this
     8  chapter.
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    10  have become a law.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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