NY A11083 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)
Status: Introduced on October 7 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-10-07 - referred to codes
Pending: Assembly Codes Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]
Status: Introduced on October 7 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-10-07 - referred to codes
Pending: Assembly Codes Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]
Summary
Eliminates court surcharges and fees (Part A); prohibits mandatory minimum fines for penal law and vehicle and traffic offenses (Part B); mandates that courts engage in an individualized assessment of a person's financial ability to pay a fine prior to imposing a fine (Part C); eliminates the availability of incarceration as a remedy for a failure to pay a fine, surcharge, or fee, lifts and vacates existing warrants issued solely on a person's failure to timely pay a fine, surcharge or fee and ends existing sentences of incarceration based on such failure (Part D); vacates existing unsatisfied civil judgments based on a person's failure to timely pay a surcharge, or fee (Part E); prohibits the collection of a fine, restitution or reparation from the funds of an incarcerated person; prohibits the payment of court fines, mandatory surcharges, certain fees, restitution, reparation or forfeitures from the earnings of prisoners (Part F); eliminates the requirement that a parolee or releasee receiving a merit termination of sentence be financially able to comply with an order of restitution; eliminates the requirement that a person receiving a discharge of sentence be financially able to comply with an order of restitution and the payment of certain surcharges or fees (Part G); vacates existing unpaid surcharges, DNA databank fees, crime victim assistance fees, sexual offender registration fees, or supplemental sex offender victim fees; repeals certain provisions of law relating to restrictions on remitting such fees (Part H).
Title
Eliminates court surcharges and fees (Part A); prohibits mandatory minimum fines for penal law and vehicle and traffic offenses (Part B); mandates that courts engage in an individualized assessment of a person's financial ability to pay a fine prior to imposing a fine (Part C); eliminates the availability of incarceration as a remedy for a failure to pay a fine, surcharge, or fee, lifts and vacates existing warrants issued solely on a person's failure to timely pay a fine, surcharge or fee and ends existing sentences of incarceration based on such failure (Part D); vacates existing unsatisfied civil judgments based on a person's failure to timely pay a surcharge, or fee (Part E); prohibits the collection of a fine, restitution or reparation from the funds of an incarcerated person; prohibits the payment of court fines, mandatory surcharges, certain fees, restitution, reparation or forfeitures from the earnings of prisoners (Part F); eliminates the requirement that a parolee or releasee receiving a merit termination of sentence be financially able to comply with an order of restitution; eliminates the requirement that a person receiving a discharge of sentence be financially able to comply with an order of restitution and the payment of certain surcharges or fees (Part G); vacates existing unpaid surcharges, DNA databank fees, crime victim assistance fees, sexual offender registration fees, or supplemental sex offender victim fees; repeals certain provisions of law relating to restrictions on remitting such fees (Part H).
Sponsors
Asm. Yuh-line Niou [D] | Asm. Charles Barron [D] | Asm. Rebecca Seawright [D] | Asm. Jo Simon [D] |
Asm. Richard Gottfried [D] | Asm. Phillip Steck [D] | Asm. Carmen De La Rosa [D] | Asm. Mathylde Frontus [D] |
History
Date | Chamber | Action |
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2020-10-07 | Assembly | referred to codes |