Bill Text: NY A04899 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Authorizes the chief administrator of the courts to require and provide at least three hours of annual training regarding bail, recognizance, and commitment procedures and standards for all judges exercising preliminary jurisdiction over any offense.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 20-0)
Status: (Vetoed) 2023-12-22 - tabled [A04899 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A04899-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 4899 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 24, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. DINOWITZ -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Codes AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to authorizing the chief administrator of the courts to require and provide at least three hours of annual training regarding bail, recognizance, and commitment procedures and standards The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The section heading of section 10.40 of the criminal proce- 2 dure law, as amended by chapter 237 of the laws of 2015, is amended and 3 new subdivision 1-a is added to read as follows: 4 Chief administrator to prescribe forms, to require training and to 5 authorize use of electronic filing. 6 1-a. The chief administrator of the courts shall have the power and 7 responsibility to require and provide at least three hours of annual 8 training regarding bail, recognizance, and commitment procedures and 9 standards for all judges exercising preliminary jurisdiction over any 10 offense. Such training shall include a thorough explanation of relevant 11 and recent statutory changes to this chapter. 12 § 2. Section 10.40 of the criminal procedure law, as amended by chap- 13 ter 102 of the laws of 2020, is amended to read as follows: 14 § 10.40 Chief administrator to prescribe forms and to require training. 15 1. The chief administrator of the courts shall have the power to 16 adopt, amend and rescind forms for the efficient and just administration 17 of this chapter. Such forms shall include, without limitation, the forms 18 described in paragraph (z-1) of subdivision two of section two hundred 19 twelve of the judiciary law. A failure by any party to submit papers in 20 compliance with forms authorized by this section shall not be grounds 21 for that reason alone for denial or granting of any motion. 22 2. The chief administrator of the courts shall have the power and 23 responsibility to require and provide at least three hours of annual EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08928-01-3A. 4899 2 1 training regarding bail, recognizance, and commitment procedures and 2 standards for all judges exercising preliminary jurisdiction over any 3 offense. Such training shall include a thorough explanation of relevant 4 and recent statutory changes to this chapter. 5 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed- 6 ing the date on which it shall have become a law; provided however, that 7 the amendments to section 10.40 of the criminal procedure law made by 8 section one of this act shall be subject to the expiration and reversion 9 of such section pursuant to section 11 of chapter 237 of the laws of 10 2015, as amended, when upon such date the provisions of section two of 11 this act shall take effect.
