Bill Text: NY S06550 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Relates to proceedings against juvenile and adolescent offenders and allowing district attorneys to remove such offenders to family court.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2019-08-30 - SIGNED CHAP.240 [S06550 Detail]
Download: New_York-2019-S06550-Introduced.html
STATE OF NEW YORK ________________________________________________________________________ 6550 2019-2020 Regular Sessions IN SENATE June 16, 2019 ___________ Introduced by Sen. BAILEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Rules AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to proceedings against juvenile and adolescent offenders The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem- bly, do enact as follows: 1 Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 722.20 of the criminal procedure 2 law, as added by section 1-a of part WWW of chapter 59 of the laws of 3 2017, is amended to read as follows: 4 1. When a juvenile offender is arraigned before a youth part, the 5 provisions of this section shall apply. If the youth part is not in 6 session, the defendant shall be brought before the most accessible 7 magistrate designated by the appellate division of the supreme court to 8 act as a youth part for the purpose of making a determination whether 9 such juvenile shall be detained or, with the consent of the district 10 attorney, immediately removed to family court. If the defendant is 11 ordered to be detained, he or she shall be brought before the next 12 session of the youth part. If the defendant is not detained, he or she 13 shall be ordered to appear at the next session of the youth part or the 14 family court. 15 § 2. Subdivision 1 of section 722.21 of the criminal procedure law, as 16 added by section 1-a of part WWW of chapter 59 of the laws of 2017, is 17 amended to read as follows: 18 1. When an adolescent offender is arraigned before a youth part, the 19 provisions of this section shall apply. If the youth part is not in 20 session, the defendant shall be brought before the most accessible 21 magistrate designated by the appellate division of the supreme court to 22 act as a youth part for the purpose of making a determination whether 23 such adolescent offender shall be detained or, with the consent of the 24 district attorney, immediately removed to family court. If the defendant 25 is ordered to be detained, he or she shall be brought before the next EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [] is old law to be omitted. LBD13353-02-9S. 6550 2 1 session of the youth part. If the defendant is not detained, he or she 2 shall be ordered to appear at the next session of the youth part, family 3 court or the local probation department. 4 § 3. This act shall take effect on the same date and in the same 5 manner as section 1-a of part WWW of chapter 59 of the laws of 2017, 6 takes effect.