NY A08793 | 2009-2010 | General Assembly

New York Assembly Bill 8793 (Prior Session Legislation)

Status

Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Democrat 79-5)
Status: Introduced on June 9 2009 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2010-01-06 - referred to judiciary
Pending: Assembly Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Summary

The Purpose of the Public Defense Act of 2009 is to improve the quality of public defense services in New York State. The bill would create a public benefit corporation charged with implementing state oversight, funding and control of public defense services.

Title

Establishes the public defense act of 2009 to improve the quality of public defense services through state oversight, funding and control of public defense services, while planning and implementing the state's assumption of these responsibilities in a manner that is responsive to regional and community needs.

Sponsors

Asm. Peter Abbate [D]	Asm. Thomas Alfano [R]	Asm. Jeffrion Aubry [D]	Asm. James Bacalles [R]
Asm. Michael Benedetto [D]	Asm. Michael Benjamin [D]	Asm. Jonathan Bing [D]	Asm. William Boyland [D]
Asm. James Brennan [D]	Asm. Richard Brodsky [D]	Asm. Alec Brook-Krasny [D]	Asm. Kevin Cahill [D]
Asm. Karim Camara [D]	Asm. Ronald Canestrari [D]	Asm. Nelson Castro [D]	Asm. Barbara Clark [D]
Asm. Vivian Cook [D]	Asm. Steven Cymbrowitz [D]	Asm. Michael DenDekker [D]	Asm. Jeffrey Dinowitz [D]
Asm. Steven Englebright [D]	Sen. Adriano Espaillat [D]	Asm. Herman Farrell [D]	Asm. Ginny Fields [D]
Asm. Dennis Gabryszak [D]	Asm. David Gantt [D]	Asm. Vanessa Gibson [D]	Asm. Joseph Giglio [R]
Asm. Deborah Glick [D]	Asm. Timothy Gordon [D]	Asm. Richard Gottfried [D]	Asm. Carl Heastie [D]
Asm. Dov Hikind [D]	Asm. Earlene Hooper [D]	Asm. Sam Hoyt [D]	Asm. Rhoda Jacobs [D]
Asm. Ellen Jaffee [D]	Asm. Hakeem Jeffries [D]	Asm. Susan John [D]	Sen. Brian Kavanagh [D]
Asm. Micah Kellner [D]	Asm. Rory Lancman [D]	Sen. George Latimer [D]	Asm. Charles Lavine [D]
Asm. Joseph Lentol [D]	Asm. Barbara Lifton [D]	Asm. Vito Lopez [D]	Asm. Donna Lupardo [D]
Asm. William Magee [D]	Asm. William Magnarelli [D]	Asm. Alan Maisel [D]	Asm. Margaret Markey [D]
Asm. John McEneny [D]	Asm. Joan Millman [D]	Asm. Joseph Morelle [D]	Asm. Daniel O'Donnell [D]
Asm. Felix Ortiz [D]	Asm. William Parment [D]	Asm. Amy Paulin [D]	Asm. Crystal Peoples-Stokes [D]
Asm. Nick Perry [D]	Asm. Audrey Pheffer [D]	Asm. Adam Powell [D]	Asm. Gary Pretlow [D]
Asm. Philip Ramos [D]	Asm. Robert Reilly [D]	Asm. Naomi Rivera [D]	Asm. Peter Rivera [D]
Asm. Annette Robinson [D]	Asm. Linda Rosenthal [D]	Asm. William Scarborough [D]	Asm. Michelle Schimel [D]
Asm. Mark Schroeder [D]	Asm. Dierdre Scozzafava [R]	Asm. Robert Sweeney [D]	Asm. Fred Thiele [D]
Asm. Matthew Titone [D]	Asm. Michele Titus [D]	Asm. Darryl Towns [D]	Asm. David Townsend [R]
Asm. Helene Weinstein [D]	Asm. Harvey Weisenberg [D]	Asm. Keith Wright [D]	Asm. Kenneth Zebrowski [D]

History

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-01-06		referred to judiciary
2009-06-17		reported referred to ways and means
2009-06-16		reported referred to codes
2009-06-09		referred to judiciary

Same As/Similar To

S6002 (Same As) 2010-01-06 - REFERRED TO JUDICIARY

New York State Sources

Type	Source
Summary	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A08793&term=2009&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y
Text	https://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?default_fld=&bn=A08793&term=2009&Summary=Y&Actions=Y&Text=Y&Committee%26nbspVotes=Y&Floor%26nbspVotes=Y#A08793