Assembly Bill A7260

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the distribution of pre-criminal proceeding settlements in the city of New York

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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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2019-A7260 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Criminal Procedure Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §95.00, CP L; amd part F §2, Chap 55 of 2018
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:
A1372

2019-A7260 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to the distribution of pre-criminal proceeding settlements in the city of New York and to the effectiveness of thereof.

2019-A7260 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   7260
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                              April 18, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by M. of A. QUART -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to  pre-criminal
   proceeding  settlements  in the city of New York; and to amend chapter
   55 of the laws of 2018 amending the criminal procedure law relating to
   pre-criminal proceeding settlements  in  the  city  of  New  York,  in
   relation to the effectiveness thereof
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Section 95.00 of the criminal procedure law,  as  added  by
 section  1  of  part  F of chapter 55 of the laws of 2018, is amended to
 read as follows:
 § 95.00 Pre-criminal proceeding settlement.
   When a county district attorney of a county located in a city  of  one
 million  or  more  recovers  monies  before  the filing of an accusatory
 instrument as defined in subdivision one of section 1.20 of  this  chap-
 ter,  after  injured  parties  have been appropriately compensated, [the
 district attorney's office shall retain a percentage  of  the  remaining
 such  monies  in recognition that such monies were recovered as a result
 of investigations undertaken by such office. For each recovery the total
 amount of such monies to be retained by the county  district  attorney's
 office  shall equal ten percent of the first twenty-five million dollars
 received by such office, plus seven and one-half percent of such  monies
 received  by  such  office  in excess of twenty-five million dollars but
 less than fifty million dollars, plus five percent of  any  such  monies
 received by such office in excess of fifty million dollars but less than
 one hundred million dollars, plus one percent of such monies received by
 such  office in excess of one hundred million dollars. The remainder of]
 such monies shall be paid by the district attorney's office to the state
 and to the county in equal amounts within thirty days of receipt,  where
 disposition  of  such monies is not otherwise prescribed by law. [Monies

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

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