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
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                                         7746
                              2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                                 I N  A S S E M B L Y
                                     May 26, 2015
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       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   11  are REPEALED.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
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