Bill Text: NY A09281 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Provides that a city, town or village court may not order recognizance or bail when it appears the defendant has two previous felony convictions pursuant to certain provisions of the penal law.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-05-13 - REFERRED TO CODES [A09281 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-A09281-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 9281 I N A S S E M B L Y April 7, 2014 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- (at request of the Office of Court Administration) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to setting bail in city, town and village courts THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 of section 530.20 of the 2 criminal procedure law, as amended by chapter 531 of the laws of 1975, 3 is amended to read as follows: 4 (a) A city court, a town court or a village court may not order 5 recognizance or bail when (i) the defendant is charged with a class A 6 felony, or (ii) it appears that the defendant has two previous felony 7 convictions WITHIN THE MEANING OF SUBDIVISION ONE OF SECTION 70.08 OR 8 70.10 OF THE PENAL LAW; 9 S 2. This act shall take effect immediately, and shall apply to all 10 criminal proceedings commenced on or after such effective date. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD13854-01-4