Assembly Bill A8568

2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to consecutive sentencing for certain convictions for sex crimes

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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-A8568 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S1358
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Penal Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §70.25, Pen L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2017-2018: A10960, S8604
2021-2022: S3840
2023-2024: S6066

2019-A8568 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Provides for consecutive sentencing for certain convictions for sex crimes.

2019-A8568 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   8568
 
                        2019-2020 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                            September 13, 2019
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. THIELE -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to consecutive sentencing for
   certain convictions
 
   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. CONSECUTIVE SENTENCING
 MAY BE APPLIED WHEN A DEFENDANT IS FOUND GUILTY OF TWO  OR  MORE  FELONY
 COUNTS,  INCLUDING  BUT  NOT  LIMITED  TO PREVIOUS FELONY CONVICTIONS OF
 ARTICLE ONE HUNDRED THIRTY OF THIS CHAPTER OR  SECTION  230.34  OF  THIS
 CHAPTER, EXCEPT CONSECUTIVE SENTENCING SHALL BE APPLIED WHEN A DEFENDANT
 IS FOUND GUILTY, OR HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY CONVICTED, OF TWO OR MORE COUNTS
 OF  ARTICLE  TWO  HUNDRED SIXTY-THREE OF THIS CHAPTER OR SECTION 130.75,
 130.80, 130.95, OR 130.96 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.
                                                            LBD06820-01-9

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