Bill Text: NY A06901 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Prohibits bail when a defendant is charged with a felony sex crime with a minor victim who is a vulnerable person or a person with a disability.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to codes [A06901 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A06901-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6901 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY March 25, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. ORTIZ, ENGLEBRIGHT, SEAWRIGHT, DAVILA, MOSLEY, TAYLOR, COOK, D'URSO -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to prohibiting bail when a defendant is charged with a felony sex crime with a minor victim who is a vulnerable person or a person with a disability The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 530.40 of the criminal procedure law is amended by 2 adding a new subdivision 5 to read as follows: 3 5. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision two, a superior court 4 may not order recognizance or bail when the defendant is charged with a 5 felony defined in article one hundred thirty of the penal law, committed 6 or attempted to be committed by a person eighteen years of age or older 7 against a person less than eighteen years of age who is a vulnerable 8 person or a person with a disability as such terms are defined in 9 section five hundred fifty of the executive law. 10 § 2. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 530.20 of the criminal 11 procedure law, as amended by chapter 531 of the laws of 1975, is amended 12 to read as follows: 13 (a) A city court, a town court or a village court may not order 14 recognizance or bail when (i) the defendant is charged with a class A 15 felony, [or] (ii) it appears that the defendant has two previous felony 16 convictions[;], or (iii) the defendant is charged with any felony 17 defined in article one hundred thirty of the penal law, committed or 18 attempted to be committed by a person eighteen years of age or older 19 against a person less than eighteen years of age who is a vulnerable 20 person or a person with a disability as such terms are defined in 21 section five hundred fifty of the executive law. 22 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD10917-01-9