Bill Text: NY A08360 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Authorizes the chief administrator of the courts to establish veterans treatment courts; and relates to the removal of certain actions to veterans treatment courts.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-30 - print number 8360a [A08360 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A08360-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 8360--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY June 15, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GALEF -- read once and referred to the Committee on Judiciary -- recommitted to the Committee on Judiciary in accord- ance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit- tee AN ACT to amend the judiciary law, in relation to authorizing the chief administrator of the courts to establish veterans treatment courts; and to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to the removal of certain actions to veterans treatment courts 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 212 of the judiciary law is 2 amended by adding a new paragraph (aa) to read as follows: 3 (aa) To the extent practicable, establish such number of veterans 4 treatment courts as may be necessary to fulfill the purposes of subdivi- 5 sion four of section 170.15 and subdivision three of section 180.20 of 6 the criminal procedure law. 7 § 2. Subdivision 5 of section 170.15 of the criminal procedure law, as 8 added by chapter 191 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows: 9 5. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of this section to the contrary, 10 in any county outside a city having a population of one million or more, 11 upon or after arraignment of a defendant on an information, a simplified 12 information, a prosecutor's information or a misdemeanor complaint pend- 13 ing in a local criminal court, such court may, upon motion of the 14 defendant [and after giving the district attorney an opportunity to be15heard, order that the action be removed from the court in which the16matter is pending to another local criminal court in the same county, or17with consent of the district attorney to another court in an adjoining18county, that has been designated as a human trafficking court by the19chief administrator of the courts, and such human trafficking court] to 20 remove the action to a court in an adjoining county that has been desig- EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11046-07-9A. 8360--A 2 1 nated as a human trafficking court or veterans treatment court by the 2 chief administrator of the courts, and after giving the district attor- 3 ney an opportunity to be heard and with the consent of the district 4 attorney of the adjoining county, order that the action be removed from 5 the court in which the matter is pending to such human trafficking court 6 or veterans treatment court, whereupon such court may then conduct such 7 action to [judgement] judgment or other final deposition; provided, 8 however, that the consent of the district attorney of the county in 9 which the action and indictment are pending shall be required before the 10 court may order removal hereunder where the accused and the person 11 alleged to be the victim of an offense charged are members of the same 12 family or household as defined in subdivision one of section 530.11 of 13 this chapter; and provided further that an order of removal issued under 14 this subdivision shall not take effect until five days after the date 15 the order is issued unless, prior to such effective date, the human 16 trafficking court or veterans treatment court notifies the court that 17 issued the order that: 18 i. it will not accept the action, in which event the order shall not 19 take effect; or 20 ii. it will accept the action on a date prior to such effective date, 21 in which event the order shall take effect upon such prior date. 22 (b) Upon providing notification pursuant to subparagraph i or ii of 23 paragraph (a) of this subdivision, the human trafficking court or veter- 24 ans treatment court shall promptly give notice to the defendant, his or 25 her counsel, and the district attorney. 26 § 3. Subdivision 4 of section 180.20 of the criminal procedure law, as 27 added by chapter 191 of the laws of 2018, is amended to read as follows: 28 4. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of this section to the contrary, 29 in any county outside a city having a population of one million or more, 30 upon or after arraignment of a defendant on a felony complaint pending 31 in a local criminal court having preliminary jurisdiction thereof, such 32 court may, upon motion of the defendant and after giving the district 33 attorney an opportunity to be heard, order that the action be removed 34 from the court in which the matter is pending to another local criminal 35 court in the same county, or with consent of the district attorney [to36another court in] of an adjoining county, to a court in such adjoining 37 county that has been designated as a human trafficking court or veterans 38 treatment court by the chief administrator of the courts, and such human 39 trafficking court or veterans treatment court may then conduct such 40 action to judgment or other final disposition; provided, however, that 41 the consent of the district attorney of the county in which the action 42 is pending shall be required before the court may order removal here- 43 under where the accused and the person alleged to be the victim of an 44 offense charged are members of the same family or household as defined 45 in subdivision one of section 530.11 of this chapter; and provided 46 further an order of removal issued under this subdivision shall not take 47 effect until five days after the date the order is issued unless, prior 48 to such effective date, the human trafficking court or veterans treat- 49 ment court notifies the court that issued the order that: 50 i. it will not accept the action, in which event the order shall not 51 take effect; or 52 ii. it will accept the action on a date prior to such effective date, 53 in which event the order shall take effect upon such prior date. 54 (b) Upon providing notification pursuant to subparagraph i or ii of 55 paragraph (a) of this subdivision, the human trafficking court or veter-A. 8360--A 3 1 ans treatment court shall promptly give notice to the defendant, his or 2 her counsel and the district attorney. 3 § 4. The criminal procedure law is amended by adding a new section 4 230.21 to read as follows: 5 § 230.21 Removal of action to an adjoining county. 6 1. In any county outside a city having a population of one million or 7 more, the court may, upon motion of the defendant and after giving the 8 district attorney an opportunity to be heard, and with consent of the 9 district attorney of an adjoining county that has a superior court 10 designated a human trafficking court or veterans treatment court by the 11 chief administrator of the courts, order that the indictment and action 12 be removed from the court in which the matter is pending to such human 13 trafficking court or veterans treatment court, whereupon such court may 14 then conduct such action to judgment or other final disposition; 15 provided, however, that the consent of the district attorney of the 16 county in which the action and indictment are pending shall be required 17 before the court may order removal hereunder where the accused and the 18 person alleged to be the victim of an offense charged are members of the 19 same family or household as defined in subdivision one of section 530.11 20 of this chapter; and provided further that an order of removal issued 21 under this subdivision shall not take effect until five days after the 22 date the order is issued unless, prior to such effective date, the human 23 trafficking court or veterans treatment court notifies the court that 24 issued the order that: 25 (a) it will not accept the action, in which event the order shall not 26 take effect, or 27 (b) it will accept the action on a date prior to such effective date, 28 in which event the order shall take effect upon such prior date. 29 2. Upon providing notification pursuant to paragraph (a) or (b) of 30 subdivision one of this section, the human trafficking court or veterans 31 treatment court shall promptly give notice to the defendant, his or her 32 counsel and the district attorney of both counties. 33 § 5. This act shall take effect immediately.