Bill Text: NY S01252 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Permits sentences for two or more crimes to run consecutively, when one of such crimes is a homicide.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - REFERRED TO CODES [S01252 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S01252-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 1252 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE January 11, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sens. SERINO, AKSHAR -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to consecutive sentences for homicide offenses The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 70.25 of the penal law, as amended 2 by chapter 56 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows: 3 2. When more than one sentence of imprisonment is imposed on a person 4 for two or more offenses committed through a single act or omission, or 5 through an act or omission which in itself constituted one of the 6 offenses and also was a material element of the other, the sentences, 7 except if one or more of such sentences is for a violation of section 8 270.20 of this chapter, must run concurrently. Provided however, that 9 if one or more of such sentences is for a conviction under article one 10 hundred twenty-five of this chapter, the sentences may run consecutive- 11 ly. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 13 ing the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD06727-01-9
