New York Assembly Bill 2217 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)
Status: Introduced on January 15 2009 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2010-01-06 - referred to codes
Pending: Assembly Codes Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

This bill would: (1) Permit a court to order any person duly charged with a violent felony offense to undergo a blood test to detect a transmissible disease in certain circumstances; (2) Define transmissible disease; (3) Establish certain privacy requirements for test information disclosure; (4) Provide for the use of voluntary blood tests where there is agreement by all parties; (5) Prohibit the use of blood test information obtained or discovered from the blood test to be used as evidence at the violent felony offender's trial; and (6) Provide that a person convicted of a violent felony offense must pay the cost of any blood test ordered by the court.

An act to amend the criminal procedure law and the penal law, in relation to authorizing court ordered blood testing of violent felons

Asm. Thomas Alfano [R]	Asm. Robert Barra [R]	Asm. Nancy Calhoun [R]	Asm. James Conte [R]
Asm. Clifford Crouch [R]	Asm. Joseph Errigo [R]	Asm. Gary Finch [R]	Asm. Brian Kolb [R]
Sen. James Tedisco [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-01-06		referred to codes
2009-06-02		held for consideration in codes
2009-01-15		referred to codes

Type	Source
Summary	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A02217&term=2009&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y
Text	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A02217&term=2009&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y#A02217