Bill Text: NY A05480 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Changes the juvenile delinquent status age, found in the Family Court Act, from sixteen to seventeen years of age.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-03 - referred to children and families [A05480 Detail]
Download: New_York-2017-A05480-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5480 2017-2018 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 9, 2017 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. TITUS, ZEBROWSKI, COOK, PERRY, AUBRY -- read once and referred to the Committee on Children and Families AN ACT to amend the family court act, in relation to changing the juve- nile delinquent status age from sixteen to seventeen The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 301.2 of the family court act, as 2 added by chapter 920 of the laws of 1982, is amended to read as follows: 3 1. "Juvenile delinquent" means a person over seven and less than 4 [sixteen] seventeen years of age, who, having committed an act that 5 would constitute a crime if committed by an adult, (a) is not criminally 6 responsible for such conduct by reason of infancy, or (b) is the defend- 7 ant in an action ordered removed from a criminal court to the family 8 court pursuant to article seven hundred twenty-five of the criminal 9 procedure law. 10 § 2. This act shall take effect on the thirtieth day next succeeding 11 the date on which it shall have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD03019-01-7