Assembly Bill A9061

Signed By Governor
2019-2020 Legislative Session

Relates to the detention of individuals who are eighteen years of age or older in a county jail pending a first court appearance in an off-hours arraignment part

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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-A9061 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S7163
Law Section:
Correction Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §§500-a & 500-c, Cor L (as proposed in S.5593 & A.7647)

2019-A9061 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Permits the detention of individuals who are eighteen years of age or older in a county jail pending a first court appearance in an off-hours arraignment part.

2019-A9061 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                            
 
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   9061
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                             January 13, 2020
                                ___________
 
 Introduced by M. of A. WEPRIN -- read once and referred to the Committee
   on Correction
 
 AN  ACT  to  amend  the  correction law, in relation to the detention of
   individuals in a county jail pending a first court  appearance  in  an
   off-hours arraignment part
 
   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

   Section 1. Subdivision 2-t of section 500-a of the correction law,  as
 added  by  a chapter of the laws of 2019, amending the correction law in
 relation to the detention of individuals in  a  county  jail  pending  a
 first  court appearance in an off-hours arraignment part, as proposed in
 legislative bills numbers S. 5593 and A. 7647, is  amended  to  read  as
 follows:
   2-t.  Notwithstanding  any  other  provision  of  law, where the chief
 administrator of the courts establishes an off-hours arraignment part in
 a county in accordance with paragraph (w)  of subdivision one of section
 two hundred twelve of the judiciary law, the county correctional facili-
 ty may be used for the detention of persons WHO ARE  EIGHTEEN  YEARS  OF
 AGE OR OLDER under arrest being held for arraignment in such part.
   §  2.  Subdivision 26 of section 500-c of the correction law, as added
 by a chapter of the  laws  of  2019,  amending  the  correction  law  in
 relation  to  the  detention  of  individuals in a county jail pending a
 first court appearance in an off-hours arraignment part, as proposed  in
 legislative  bills  numbers  S.  5593 and A. 7647, is amended to read as
 follows:
   26. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, where the chief admin-
 istrator of the courts establishes an off-hours arraignment  part  in  a
 county  in  accordance with paragraph (w)  of subdivision one of section
 two hundred twelve of the judiciary law,  all  the  provisions  of  this
 section  shall  equally apply in any case where the sheriff is holding a
 person WHO IS EIGHTEEN YEARS OF  AGE  OR  OLDER  AND  under  arrest  for
 arraignment  prior  to commitment, as if such person had been judicially
 committed to the custody of the sheriff and such person may be  held  in
 such county correctional facility.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets

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