Bill Text: NY S05517 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to verdict sheets by including locations, value or amounts of property, objects or substances, and the manner of sexual contact.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2020-01-22 - referred to codes [S05517 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S05517-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 5517 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE May 3, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BAILEY -- (at request of the Office of Court Adminis- tration) -- 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 verdict sheets The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 310.20 of the criminal procedure 2 law, as amended by chapter 588 of the laws of 2002, is amended to read 3 as follows: 4 2. A written list prepared by the court containing the offenses 5 submitted to the jury by the court in its charge and the possible 6 verdicts thereon. Whenever the court submits two or more counts [charg-7ing offenses set forth in the same article of the law], the court may 8 set forth the following notations by which the counts may be distin- 9 guished: dates[,]; names of complainants; locations; types, value or 10 amounts of property, objects or substances; manner of sexual contact; or 11 specific statutory language, without defining the terms[, by which the12counts may be distinguished]; provided, however, that the court shall 13 instruct the jury in its charge that the sole purpose of the notations 14 is to distinguish between the counts; and 15 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately. EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD09451-02-9