Bill Text: NY A05647 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to requiring the imposition of a consecutive sentence for convictions of crimes committed while an offender is in the custody of a correctional facility or local correctional facility.
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 13-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-07-17 - held for consideration in codes [A05647 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A05647-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5647 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY February 14, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. GIGLIO, DeSTEFANO, McDONOUGH, PALUMBO, CROUCH, B. MILLER, RA, HAWLEY, MONTESANO, REILLY, LAWRENCE, MORINELLO, SAYEGH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to consecutive sentences for certain offenders; and to repeal certain provisions of the penal law, relating thereto The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 70.25 of the penal law is amended by adding a new 2 subdivision 6 to read as follows: 3 6. When a person is convicted of a crime committed while in the custo- 4 dy of a correctional facility or local correctional facility, any 5 sentence of imprisonment imposed for such conviction shall run consec- 6 utively to any undischarged term of imprisonment to which the defendant 7 was subject and for which he or she was confined at the time of the 8 conviction. 9 § 2. Paragraphs (b) and (c) of subdivision 5 of section 70.25 of the 10 penal law, paragraph (b) as added by chapter 372 of the laws of 1981, 11 are REPEALED. 12 § 3. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed- 13 ing 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. LBD06872-01-9
