Bill Text: NY S00234 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides that no person convicted of certain felonies defined under specified laws of this state may file a petition for change of name while such person is incarcerated or under supervised release therefor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO CODES [S00234 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S00234-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           234
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                       (Prefiled)
                                     January 4, 2017
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        Introduced by Sens. GOLDEN, YOUNG -- read twice and ordered printed, and
          when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes
        AN ACT to amend the civil rights law, in relation to prohibiting certain
          felons from changing their names
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1.  Section 60 of the civil rights law, as amended by  chapter
     2  695 of the laws of 1962, is amended to read as follows:
     3    § 60. Petition for change of name; exception.  1. A petition for leave
     4  to  assume  another  name  may be made by a resident of the state to the
     5  county court of the county or the supreme court in the county  in  which
     6  he  or  she  resides,  or, if he or she resides in the city of New York,
     7  either to the supreme court or to any branch of the civil court  of  the
     8  city of New York, in any county of the city of New York. The petition to
     9  change  the  name  of an infant may be made by the infant through his or
    10  her next friend, or by either of his or her parents, or by  his  or  her
    11  general guardian, or by the guardian of his or her person.
    12    2.    Notwithstanding  the  provisions  of  subdivision two of section
    13  sixty-one of this article, on and  after  the  effective  date  of  this
    14  subdivision no petition may be made to change the name of any person who
    15  has been convicted (regardless of when such conviction was entered) of a
    16  violent felony offense as defined in section 70.02 of the penal law or a
    17  felony  defined in article one hundred twenty-five of such law or any of
    18  the following provisions of such law: section  130.25,  130.30,  130.40,
    19  130.45, 255.25, 255.26, article two hundred sixty-three, section 135.10,
    20  230.05,  230.06,  subdivision  two of section 230.30, or section 230.32,
    21  and who is currently confined as an inmate in any correctional  facility
    22  or  currently under the supervision of the department of corrections and
    23  community supervision or a county probation department as  a  result  of
    24  such conviction.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.