Bill Text: NY S08604 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Provides for consecutive sentencing for certain convictions for sex crimes.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 9-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-20 - RECOMMITTED TO RULES [S08604 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S08604-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8604
                    IN SENATE
                                      May 10, 2018
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  SERINO -- 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 consecutive sentencing for
          certain convictions
          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 70.25 of the penal law, as amended
     2  by chapter 56 of the laws of 1984, is amended to read as follows:
     3    2.  When more than one sentence of imprisonment is imposed on a person
     4  for two or more offenses committed through a single act or omission,  or
     5  through  an  act  or  omission  which  in  itself constituted one of the
     6  offenses and also was a material element of the  other,  the  sentences,
     7  except  if  one  or more of such sentences is for a violation of section
     8  270.20 of this chapter, must run  concurrently.  Consecutive  sentencing
     9  may  be  applied  when a defendant is found guilty of two or more felony
    10  counts, including but not limited  to  previous  felony  convictions  of
    11  article  one  hundred  thirty  of this chapter or section 230.34 of this
    12  chapter, except consecutive sentencing shall be applied when a defendant
    13  is found guilty, or has been previously convicted, of two or more counts
    14  of article two hundred sixty-three of this chapter  or  section  130.75,
    15  130.80, 130.95, or 130.96 of this chapter.
    16    § 2. This act shall take effect on the first of November next succeed-
    17  ing the date on which 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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