Bill Text: NY A10339 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Vacates certain records for misdemeanor marihuana convictions.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-07-23 - ordered to third reading rules cal.353 [A10339 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A10339-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          10339

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                     April 29, 2020
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A. L. ROSENTHAL -- read once and referred to the
          Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure  law,  in  relation  to  vacating
          certain records for misdemeanor marihuana convictions

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

     1    Section 1. Subparagraph (i) of  paragraph  (k)  of  subdivision  3  of
     2  section  160.50 of the criminal procedure law, as amended by chapter 132
     3  of the laws of 2019, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (i) The conviction was for a violation of article two  hundred  twenty
     5  or  section 240.36 of the penal law prior to the effective date of arti-
     6  cle two hundred twenty-one of the penal law,  and  the  sole  controlled
     7  substance  involved  was  marihuana  and  the  conviction was only for a
     8  [violation or violations] misdemeanor and/or violation; or
     9    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately, provided,  however,  that
    10  the  expungement  of  marihuana  convictions under section 160.50 of the
    11  criminal procedure law, added by the amendment in section  one  of  this
    12  act,  shall occur promptly and in any event no later than one year after
    13  the effective date of this act.






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