Bill Text: NY A06279 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Requires the department of criminal justice services to monitor desk appearance tickets and report on the rate which principals appear in court on such tickets.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - referred to codes [A06279 Detail]
Download: New_York-2023-A06279-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6279 2023-2024 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY April 3, 2023 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. K. BROWN -- read once and referred to the Commit- tee on Codes AN ACT to amend the executive law, in relation to requiring the depart- ment of criminal justice services to monitor desk appearance tickets and report on the rate which principals appear in court on such tick- ets The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The executive law is amended by adding a new section 837-x 2 to read as follows: 3 § 837-x. Desk appearance ticket report. The commissioner shall annual- 4 ly submit to the governor and the legislature and post to the depart- 5 ment's website a report regarding desk appearance tickets for the previ- 6 ous year. This report shall be both statewide and disaggregated by 7 county and shall include, but not be limited to, the number of desk 8 appearance tickets issued, the number of principals who did not appear 9 in court after being issued a desk appearance ticket, and the ratio of 10 desk appearance tickets issued to principals who did not appear in court 11 after being issued a desk appearance ticket. 12 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD08625-01-3
