Bill Text: NY A07746 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to requiring the imposition of a consecutive sentence for convictions of crimes committed while an offender is in the custody of a correctional facility or local correctional facility.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-06 - referred to codes [A07746 Detail]
Download: New_York-2015-A07746-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 7746 2015-2016 Regular Sessions I N A S S E M B L Y May 26, 2015 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GIGLIO, GRAF, MONTESANO, PALUMBO, LAWRENCE -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to consecutive sentences for certain offenders; and providing for the repeal of certain provisions of the penal law THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Section 70.25 of the penal law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 6 to read as follows: 3 6. WHEN A PERSON IS CONVICTED OF A CRIME COMMITTED WHILE IN THE CUSTO- 4 DY OF A CORRECTIONAL FACILITY OR LOCAL CORRECTIONAL FACILITY, ANY 5 SENTENCE OF IMPRISONMENT IMPOSED FOR SUCH CONVICTION SHALL RUN CONSEC- 6 UTIVELY TO ANY UNDISCHARGED TERM OF IMPRISONMENT TO WHICH THE DEFENDANT 7 WAS SUBJECT AND FOR WHICH HE OR SHE WAS CONFINED AT THE TIME OF THE 8 CONVICTION. 9 S 2. Paragraphs (b) and (c) of subdivision 5 of section 70.25 of the 10 penal law, paragraph (b) as added by chapter 372 of the laws of 1981, 11 are REPEALED. 12 S 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 13 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. LBD11046-02-5