Assembly Bill A6929

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Relates to disallowing sentences of intermittent imprisonment when the court is imposing a sentence for a sex offense

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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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2017-A6929 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1211
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §85.00, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: A1596, S684
2021-2022: A3551, S3609
2023-2024: A1841, S862

2017-A6929 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to disallowing sentences of intermittent imprisonment when the court is imposing a sentence for a sex offense.

2017-A6929 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   6929
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              March 24, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. HAWLEY, LUPINACCI, GIGLIO, LAWRENCE, MORINELLO --
   Multi-Sponsored  by  --  M.  of  A.  CROUCH, DiPIETRO -- read once and
   referred to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to sentences of  intermittent
   imprisonment for sexual offenses

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 85.00 of the penal law,  as  added
 by  chapter 477 of the laws of 1970, paragraph (a) as amended by chapter
 277 of the laws of 1973, is amended to read as follows:
   2. Authorization for use of sentence. The court may impose a  sentence
 of intermittent imprisonment in any case where:
   (a)  the court is imposing sentence, upon a person other than a second
 or persistent felony offender, for a class D or class E  felony  or  for
 any offense that is not a felony; [and]
   (b)  the court is not imposing any other sentence of imprisonment upon
 the defendant at the same time; [and]
   (c) the defendant is not under any other sentence of imprisonment with
 a term in excess of fifteen days imposed by any other court; and
   (D) THE COURT IS NOT IMPOSING A SENTENCE FOR A SEX OFFENSE PURSUANT TO
 ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED THIRTY OF THIS CHAPTER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
 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.
                                                            LBD04823-01-7

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