Senate Bill S2159

2017-2018 Legislative Session

Permits sentences for two or more crimes committed through a single act to run consecutively when one of such crimes is a homicide

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Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Codes Committee

  • 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-S2159 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §70.25, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2013-2014: S7482
2015-2016: S3694
2019-2020: S1252
2021-2022: S2947

2017-S2159 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Permits sentences for two or more crimes to run consecutively, when one of such crimes is a homicide.

2017-S2159 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2017-S2159 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   2159
 
                        2017-2018 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 12, 2017
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  SERINO -- 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:

   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 70.25 of the penal law, as amended
 by chapter 56 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows:
   2. When more than one sentence of imprisonment is imposed on a  person
 for  two or more offenses committed through a single act or omission, or
 through an act or omission  which  in  itself  constituted  one  of  the
 offenses  and  also  was a material element of the other, the sentences,
 except if one or more of such sentences is for a  violation  of  section
 270.20  of  this chapter, must run concurrently.  PROVIDED HOWEVER, THAT
 IF ONE OR MORE OF SUCH SENTENCES IS FOR A CONVICTION UNDER  ARTICLE  ONE
 HUNDRED  TWENTY-FIVE OF THIS CHAPTER, THE SENTENCES MAY RUN CONSECUTIVE-
 LY.
   § 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.
                                                            LBD01549-01-7

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