Bill Text: NY A08345 | 2021-2022 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires a nominal bail informational proceeding for any defendant being held solely due to a bail amount of less than ten dollars within 48 hours.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-01-05 - referred to codes [A08345 Detail]
Download: New_York-2021-A08345-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8345 2021-2022 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY October 20, 2021 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. O'DONNELL -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to requiring a nominal bail informational proceeding for any defendant being held solely due to a bail amount of less than ten dollars The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The criminal procedure law is amended by adding a new 2 section 530.41 to read as follows: 3 § 530.41 Nominal bail informational proceedings. 4 When a defendant is being held for one or more charges solely due to a 5 bail amount of less than ten dollars, such individual shall, within 6 forty-eight hours, be brought before the court for a nominal bail infor- 7 mational proceeding and informed of such bail amount. 8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 9 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13335-01-1