Bill Text: NY A07543 | 2011-2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

New York Assembly Bill 7543 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: Expands the definition of "second felony offender" to remove the limitation that the second felony conviction be of a felony defined in the penal law.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-27 - held for consideration in codes [A07543 Detail]

Download: New_York-2011-A07543-Introduced.html

                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7543
                              2011-2012 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 10, 2011
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       Introduced by M. of A. McKEVITT -- read once and referred to the Commit-
         tee on Codes
       AN  ACT  to amend the penal law, in relation to expanding the definition
         of "second felony offender"
         THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
       BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
    1    Section  1.  Paragraph  (a)  of  subdivision 1 of section 70.06 of the
    2  penal law, as amended by chapter 410 of the laws of 1979, is amended  to
    3  read as follows:
    4    (a)  A second felony offender is a person, other than a second violent
    5  felony  offender  as defined in section 70.04, who stands convicted of a
    6  felony [defined in this chapter], other than a class A-I  felony,  after
    7  having  previously  been  subjected  to  one  or  more  predicate felony
    8  convictions as defined in paragraph (b) of this subdivision.
    9    S 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
   10  ing the date on which it shall have become a law.
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD11054-01-1