Bill Text: NY A07959 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Amended
Bill Title: Relates to the execution of warrants in juvenile delinquency cases when family courts are closed.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-02-12 - REFERRED TO CRIME VICTIMS, CRIME AND CORRECTION [A07959 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-A07959-Amended.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 7959--A 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN ASSEMBLY May 29, 2019 ___________ Introduced by M. of A. RAYNOR -- (at request of the Office of Court Administration) -- read once and referred to the Committee on Children and Families -- reported and referred to the Committee on Codes -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee AN ACT to amend the family court act, in relation to execution of warrants in juvenile delinquency cases when family courts are closed The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Section 312.2 of the family court act is amended by adding 2 a new subdivision 3 to read as follows: 3 3. A juvenile who is arrested pursuant to a warrant issued under this 4 section must forthwith and with all reasonable speed be taken directly 5 to the family court located in the county in which the warrant had been 6 issued, or, when the family court is not in session, to the most acces- 7 sible magistrate, if any, designated by the appellate division of the 8 supreme court in the applicable department. If a juvenile is brought 9 before an accessible magistrate, the magistrate shall set a date for the 10 juvenile to appear in the family court in the county in which the 11 warrant had been issued, which shall be no later than the next day the 12 court is in session if the magistrate orders the juvenile to be detained 13 and within ten court days if the magistrate orders the juvenile to be 14 released. In determining whether the juvenile should be released, with 15 or without conditions, or detained, the magistrate shall apply the 16 criterion and issue the findings required by section 320.5 of this arti- 17 cle. The magistrate shall transmit its order to the family court forth- 18 with. 19 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall 20 have become a law. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09839-02-9