Bill Text: NY S04032 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Relates to requiring limits on the number of cases a public defender may be assigned in any given year.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT [S04032 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S04032-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         4032--B
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                    IN SENATE
                                    February 2, 2017
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        Introduced  by  Sens.  BAILEY,  COMRIE,  HAMILTON,  MONTGOMERY,  PARKER,
          PERSAUD -- read twice and ordered printed,  and  when  printed  to  be
          committed   to   the   Committee  on  Local  Government  --  committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee  --  committee  discharged,  bill  amended,  ordered
          reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
        AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to caseload relief
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1.  Paragraph (b) of subdivision 4 of section 832 of the exec-
     2  utive law, as added by section 12 of part VVV of chapter 59 of the  laws
     3  of 2017, is amended to read as follows:
     4    (b)  Caseload relief. Develop and implement a written plan that estab-
     5  lishes  numerical  caseload/workload  standards  for  each  provider  of
     6  constitutionally  mandated  publicly  funded  representation in criminal
     7  cases for people who are unable to afford counsel, provided that  annual
     8  individual  numerical  caseload/workload  standards may not exceed three
     9  hundred sixty-seven misdemeanors or one hundred  thirty-eight  felonies,
    10  with  each  felony counting as two and sixty-six hundredths misdemeanors
    11  in mixed caseloads.
    12    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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