Bill Text: NY S00502 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the expungement of syringe convictions of criminally possessing a hypodermic instrument.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-01-03 - REFERRED TO CODES [S00502 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S00502-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           502

                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions

                    IN SENATE

                                     January 4, 2023
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen.  RIVERA -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes

        AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to the  expunge-
          ment of syringe convictions

          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:

     1    Section 1. Subparagraph (vi) of paragraph  (k)  of  subdivision  3  of
     2  section  160.50  of the criminal procedure law, as amended by chapter 92
     3  of the laws of 2021, is amended and a new subparagraph (vii) is added to
     4  read as follows:
     5    (vi) the conviction was for an  offense  defined  in  section  222.10,
     6  222.15, 222.25 or 222.45 of the penal law[.]; or
     7    (vii)  the  conviction  was  for  a violation of an offense defined in
     8  former section 220.45 of the penal law prior to the  effective  date  of
     9  this subparagraph.
    10    § 2. This act shall take effect on the one hundred eightieth day after
    11  it shall have become a law.





         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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