Assembly Bill A4442

2015-2016 Legislative Session

Requires palmprints, fingerprints and photographs of juveniles convicted of a felony to be made available by the division of criminal justice services to law enforcement

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  • Introduced
    • In Committee Assembly
    • In Committee Senate
    • On Floor Calendar Assembly
    • On Floor Calendar Senate
    • Passed Assembly
    • Passed Senate
  • Delivered to Governor
  • Signed By Governor

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2015-A4442 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Family Court Act
Laws Affected:
Amd ยง354.1, Fam Ct Act
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2009-2010: A4192
2011-2012: A3712
2013-2014: A6127
2017-2018: A4548
2019-2020: A4918

2015-A4442 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires palmprints, fingerprints and photographs of juveniles convicted of a felony to be made available by the division of criminal justice services to law enforcement agencies upon demand.

2015-A4442 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
                    S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
________________________________________________________________________

                                  4442

                       2015-2016 Regular Sessions

                          I N  A S S E M B L Y

                            February 2, 2015
                               ___________

Introduced by M. of A. RAMOS -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. ABBATE --
  read once and referred to the Committee on Codes

AN  ACT  to  amend  the  family  court  act, in relation to allowing law
  enforcement agencies access to fingerprints of  juveniles  adjudicated
  juvenile delinquents for commission of a felony

  THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 354.1 of the family court act,  as
added by chapter 920 of the laws of 1982, is amended to read as follows:
  1.  If  a  person  whose  fingerprints, palmprints or photographs were
taken pursuant to section 306.1 or  was  initially  fingerprinted  as  a
juvenile  offender  and  the  action is subsequently removed to a family
court pursuant to article seven  hundred  twenty-five  of  the  criminal
procedure  law  is adjudicated to be a juvenile delinquent for a felony,
the family court shall forward or cause to be forwarded to the  division
of  criminal  justice  services  notification of such adjudication ALONG
WITH SUCH FINGERPRINTS, PALMPRINTS OR PHOTOGRAPHS, WHICH SHALL  BE  MADE
AVAILABLE  TO  LAW  ENFORCEMENT  AGENCIES  UPON DEMAND, and such related
information as may be required by such division, provided,  however,  in
the  case  of  a  person eleven or twelve years of age such notification
shall be provided only if the act upon which the adjudication  is  based
would constitute a class A or B felony.
  S  2.  This  act shall take effect on the thirtieth day after it shall
have become a law.



 EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                      [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                           LBD08285-01-5

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