Bill Text: NY S09003 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced


Bill Title: Relates to the issuance of arrest warrants and appearance tickets upon a youth; provides for the police officer to immediately notify the parent or other person legally responsible for the care of such youth with whom the youth is domiciled that the youth has been arrested; provides further that the police officer need not notify the parent or other person legally responsible when such youth is not also a juvenile offender and the notification would endanger the health and safety of such youth.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-06-12 - REFERRED TO RULES [S09003 Detail]

Download: New_York-2017-S09003-Introduced.html


                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9003
                    IN SENATE
                                      June 12, 2018
                                       ___________
        Introduced  by  Sen.  PARKER -- 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  establishing
          the Chance to Help Notification Act
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "chance  to
     2  help notification act".
     3    § 2. Subdivision 7 of section 120.90 of the criminal procedure law, as
     4  amended  by section 16 of part WWW of chapter 59 of the laws of 2017, is
     5  amended to read as follows:
     6    7. Upon arresting a juvenile offender or adolescent offender or  youth
     7  as  defined  in  subdivision  one of section 720.10 of this chapter, the
     8  police officer shall immediately  notify  the  parent  or  other  person
     9  legally  responsible  for  his or her care or the person with whom he or
    10  she is domiciled, that the juvenile  offender  or  youth  or  adolescent
    11  offender  or  youth  has been arrested, and the location of the facility
    12  where he or she is being detained, provided that the police officer need
    13  not notify the parent or  other  person  legally  responsible  for  such
    14  youth's  care  or  the person with whom he or she is domiciled when such
    15  youth is not also a juvenile offender and the notification of  a  parent
    16  or other person would endanger the health or safety of such youth.
    17    § 3. Subdivision 6 of section 140.20 of the criminal procedure law, as
    18  amended  by section 20 of part WWW of chapter 59 of the laws of 2017, is
    19  amended to read as follows:
    20    6. Upon arresting a juvenile offender or youth as defined in  subdivi-
    21  sion  one  of  section  720.10  of  this  chapter or a person sixteen or
    22  commencing October first, two thousand nineteen, seventeen years of  age
    23  without  a  warrant,  the  police  officer  shall immediately notify the
    24  parent or other person legally responsible for his or her  care  or  the
    25  person  with  whom  he or she is domiciled, that such offender or person
    26  has been arrested, and the location of the facility where he or  she  is
    27  being  detained,  provided  that  the police officer need not notify the
    28  parent or other person legally responsible for such youth's care or  the
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD08383-03-8

        S. 9003                             2
     1  person  with  whom  he or she is domiciled when such youth is not also a
     2  juvenile offender and the notification of a parent or other person would
     3  endanger the health or safety of such youth.  If the officer  determines
     4  that it is necessary to question a juvenile offender or such person, the
     5  officer  must  take  him  or  her  to a facility designated by the chief
     6  administrator of the courts as a suitable place for the  questioning  of
     7  children  or,  upon  the  consent  of  a  parent or other person legally
     8  responsible for the care of the juvenile or such person, to his  or  her
     9  residence and there question him or her for a reasonable period of time.
    10  A  juvenile  or  such  person  shall  not be questioned pursuant to this
    11  section unless he or she and a person required to be  notified  pursuant
    12  to this subdivision, if present, have been advised:
    13    (a)  of  the  juvenile  offender's,  youth's or such person's right to
    14  remain silent;
    15    (b) that the statements made by him or her may be used in a  court  of
    16  law;
    17    (c)  of his or her right to have an attorney present at such question-
    18  ing; and
    19    (d) of his or her right to have an attorney provided for  him  or  her
    20  without charge if he or she is unable to afford counsel.
    21    In  determining  the  suitability  of  questioning and determining the
    22  reasonable period of time for questioning such a  juvenile  offender  or
    23  person, his or her age, the presence or absence of his or her parents or
    24  other  persons  legally responsible for his or her care and notification
    25  pursuant to this subdivision shall be included among relevant  consider-
    26  ations.
    27    § 4. Section 150.20 of the criminal procedure law is amended by adding
    28  a new subdivision 4 to read as follows:
    29    4.  Upon  issuing  to  and  serving an appearance ticket as defined in
    30  subdivision one of section 150.10  of  this  article  upon  a  youth  as
    31  defined in subdivision one of section 720.10 of this chapter, the police
    32  officer  shall notify the parent or other person legally responsible for
    33  his or her care or the person with whom he or  she  is  domiciled,  that
    34  such youth has been served with an appearance ticket, the time set forth
    35  in  such  appearance ticket for the youth's appearance before a criminal
    36  court and the offense of which he or she is charged, provided  that  the
    37  police  officer  need  not  notify  the  parent  or other person legally
    38  responsible for such youth's care or the person with whom he or  she  is
    39  domiciled  when  such  youth  is  not  also  a juvenile offender and the
    40  notification of a parent or other person would endanger  the  health  or
    41  safety of such youth.
    42    §  5. This act shall take effect on the first of January next succeed-
    43  ing the date on which it shall have  become  a  law;  provided  that  if
    44  sections  16  and 20 of part WWW of chapter 59 of the laws of 2017 shall
    45  not have taken effect on such date, then sections one and  two  of  this
    46  act  shall  take  effect on the same date and in the same manner as such
    47  sections of part WWW of chapter 59 of the laws of 2017 take effect.
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