Bill Text: NY S05761 | 2013-2014 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to sentencing involving persistent violent felony offenders.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-01-08 - REFERRED TO CODES [S05761 Detail]
Download: New_York-2013-S05761-Introduced.html
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 5761 2013-2014 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E June 12, 2013 ___________ Introduced by Sen. GOLDEN -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Codes AN ACT to amend the penal law, in relation to sentencing THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEM- BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 3 of section 70.08 of the penal law, as amended 2 by section 7 of chapter 107 of the laws of 2006, is amended by adding a 3 new paragraph (d) to read as follows: 4 (D) FOR A CLASS E FELONY THE MINIMUM PERIOD MUST BE AT LEAST THREE 5 YEARS AND MUST NOT EXCEED TWENTY-FIVE YEARS. 6 S 2. Subdivision 3 of section 70.08 of the penal law, as amended by 7 section 8 of chapter 107 of the laws of 2006, is amended by adding a new 8 paragraph (d) to read as follows: 9 (D) FOR A CLASS E FELONY THE MINIMUM PERIOD MUST BE AT LEAST THREE 10 YEARS AND MUST NOT EXCEED TWENTY-FIVE YEARS. 11 S 3. This act shall take effect immediately; provided, however that 12 this act shall apply to offenses committed on or after such effective 13 date; and provided further that the amendments to subdivision 3 of 14 section 70.08 of the penal law made by section one of this act shall be 15 subject to the expiration and reversion of such subdivision pursuant to 16 subdivision d of section 74 of chapter 3 of the laws of 1995, as 17 amended, when upon such date the provisions of section two of this act 18 shall take effect. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD10861-01-3