Bill Text: NY A07693 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Permits sentences for two or more crimes to run consecutively, when one of such crimes is a homicide.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-25 - enacting clause stricken [A07693 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A07693-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7693--A 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY May 9, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. SKARTADOS, BARRETT, LALOR -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to consecutive sentences for homicide offenses The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 70.25 of the penal law, as amended 2 by chapter 56 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows: 3 2. When more than one sentence of imprisonment is imposed on a person 4 for two or more offenses committed through a single act or omission, or 5 through an act or omission which in itself constituted one of the 6 offenses and also was a material element of the other, the sentences, 7 except if one or more of such sentences is for a violation of section 8 270.20 of this chapter, must run concurrently. Consecutive sentencing 9 will be applied when a defendant is found guilty of two or more counts 10 of violation of section 125.12 (vehicular manslaughter in the second 11 degree) or of two or more counts of violation of subdivision one of 12 section 125.15 (manslaughter in the second degree). 13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 14 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. LBD01549-04-7
