Bill Text: NY A10147 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
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
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 an8indictment, superior court information, prosecutor's information, infor-9mation, simplified information, misdemeanor complaint or felony10complaint] 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-15ment on an indictment, superior court information, prosecutor's informa-16tion, information, simplified information, misdemeanor complaint or17felony 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