Bill Text: NY A07584 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to sealing petty offenses and making certain technical changes.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-10-07 - signed chap.359 [A07584 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A07584-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7584 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY May 10, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. LENTOL -- (at request of the Office of Court Administration) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to sealing petty offenses The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision 1 of section 160.55 of 2 the criminal procedure law, as amended by chapter 169 of the laws of 3 1994, is amended to read as follows: 4 [Upon] Regardless of the class of offense for which a person is 5 initially charged, upon the termination of a criminal action or proceed- 6 ing against a person by the conviction of such person of a traffic 7 infraction or a violation, other than a violation of loitering as 8 described in paragraph (d) [or (e)] of subdivision one of section 160.10 9 of this [chapter] article or the violation of operating a motor vehicle 10 while ability impaired as described in subdivision one of section eleven 11 hundred ninety-two of the vehicle and traffic law, unless the district 12 attorney upon motion with not less than five [days] days' notice to such 13 person or his or her attorney demonstrates to the satisfaction of the 14 court that the interests of justice require otherwise, or the court on 15 its own motion with not less than five [days] days' notice to such 16 person or his or her attorney determines that the interests of justice 17 require otherwise and states the reasons for such determination on the 18 record, the clerk of the court wherein such criminal action or proceed- 19 ing was terminated shall immediately notify the commissioner of the 20 division of criminal justice services and the heads of all appropriate 21 police departments and other law enforcement agencies that the action 22 has been terminated by such conviction. Upon receipt of notification of 23 such termination: 24 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall 25 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD11521-01-9