Bill Text: NY A04822 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that no person convicted of certain felonies defined under specified laws of this state may file a petition for change of name while such person is incarcerated or under supervised release therefor.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to judiciary [A04822 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A04822-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          4822
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    February 5, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. COLTON, CROUCH, BLAKE, PERRY, RAIA -- Multi-Spon-
          sored  by -- M.  of A. CYMBROWITZ, RIVERA -- read once and referred to
          the Committee on Judiciary
        AN ACT to amend the civil rights law, in relation to prohibiting certain
          felons from changing their names
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  Section 60 of the civil rights law, as amended by chapter
     2  695 of the laws of 1962, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 60. Petition for change of name; exception.  1. A petition for leave
     4  to assume another name may be made by a resident of  the  state  to  the
     5  county  court  of the county or the supreme court in the county in which
     6  he or she resides, or, if he or she resides in the  city  of  New  York,
     7  either  to  the supreme court or to any branch of the civil court of the
     8  city of New York, in any county of the city of New York. The petition to
     9  change the name of an infant may be made by the infant  through  his  or
    10  her  next  friend,  or by either of his or her parents, or by his or her
    11  general guardian, or by the guardian of his or her person.
    12    2.   Notwithstanding the provisions  of  subdivision  two  of  section
    13  sixty-one  of  this  article,  on  and  after the effective date of this
    14  subdivision no petition may be made to change the name of any person who
    15  has been convicted (regardless of when such conviction was entered) of a
    16  violent felony offense as defined in section 70.02 of the penal law or a
    17  felony defined in article one hundred twenty-five of such law or any  of
    18  the  following  provisions  of such law: section 130.25, 130.30, 130.40,
    19  130.45, 255.25, 255.26, article two hundred sixty-three, section 135.10,
    20  230.05, 230.06, subdivision two of section 230.30,  or  section  230.32,
    21  and  who is currently confined as an inmate in any correctional facility
    22  or currently under the supervision of the department of corrections  and
    23  community  supervision  or  a county probation department as a result of
    24  such conviction.
    25    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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