Assembly Bill A673

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Facilitates appellate review of rulings that implicate issues of public concern

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Current Bill Status - In Assembly 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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2025-A673 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Senate Version of this Bill:
S329
Current Committee:
Assembly Codes
Law Section:
Criminal Procedure Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §710.70, CP L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2021-2022: A5688, S1281
2023-2024: A152, A9117, S939, S8688

2025-A673 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Relates to facilitating appellate review of rulings that implicate issues of public concern.

2025-A673 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                    673
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                           I N  A S S E M B L Y
 
                                (PREFILED)
 
                              January 8, 2025
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  M. of A. CRUZ, BORES, ROSENTHAL, KELLES, JACKSON -- read
   once and referred to the Committee on Codes
 
 AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to  facilitating
   appellate review of rulings that implicate issues of public concern

   THE  PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 710.70 of the  criminal  procedure
 law is amended to read as follows:
   2.  An order finally denying a motion to suppress evidence [may] SHALL
 be  [reviewed]  REVIEWABLE  upon  an  appeal from an ensuing judgment of
 conviction notwithstanding the fact that such judgment is entered upon a
 plea of guilty AND NOT WITHSTANDING AN OTHERWISE ENFORCEABLE  WAIVER  OF
 THE RIGHT TO APPEAL.
   §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
 have become a law.
 
 
 
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD00202-02-5

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