Bill Text: NY A10147 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Changes the timing of certain discovery requirements to sixty days prior to trial.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-10 - referred to codes [A10147 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10147-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10147

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      May 10, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced by COMMITTEE ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. K. Brown) --
          read once and referred to the Committee on Codes

        AN  ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to changing the
          timing of certain discovery requirements to sixty days prior to trial

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section  1.  Paragraphs (i) and (ii) of paragraph (a) of subdivision 1
     2  of section 245.10 of the criminal procedure law, as amended by section 1
     3  of part HHH of chapter 56 of the laws of 2020, are amended  to  read  as
     4  follows:
     5    (i) When a defendant is in custody during the pendency of the criminal
     6  case,  the  prosecution  shall perform its initial discovery obligations
     7  [within twenty calendar days after the  defendant's  arraignment  on  an
     8  indictment, superior court information, prosecutor's information, infor-
     9  mation,   simplified   information,   misdemeanor  complaint  or  felony
    10  complaint] no later than sixty days before  the  first  scheduled  trial
    11  date.
    12    (ii)  When  the defendant is not in custody during the pendency of the
    13  criminal case, the prosecution shall perform its initial discovery obli-
    14  gations [within thirty-five calendar days after the defendant's arraign-
    15  ment on an indictment, superior court information, prosecutor's informa-
    16  tion, information,  simplified  information,  misdemeanor  complaint  or
    17  felony  complaint]  no  later than sixty days before the first scheduled
    18  trial date.
    19    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.




         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15309-01-4