New York S 4330: Relates to granting certain individuals youthful offender status or young adult offender status; repealer

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S04330 Summary:

BILL NOS04330A

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SAME ASSAME AS A05293-A

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SPONSORMYRIE

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COSPNSRBAILEY, BRISPORT, BROUK, CLEARE, FERNANDEZ, GIANARIS, GONZALEZ, HARCKHAM, HOYLMAN-SIGAL, PARKER,
 RAMOS, RIVERA, SALAZAR, SEPULVEDA, SERRANO

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MLTSPNSR

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Rpld §720.15 subs 3 & 4, amd CP L, generally; amd §§60.00, 60.02, 80.00 & 80.05, Pen L

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Relates to granting certain individuals youthful offender status; adds a new category of individuals eligible for young adult offender status; provides for process and sentencing requirements related to such statuses.

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BILL NOS04330A

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02/04/2025REFERRED TO CODES

01/07/2026REFERRED TO CODES

02/02/2026AMEND AND RECOMMIT TO CODES

02/02/2026PRINT NUMBER 4330A

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 4330--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN SENATE

 February 4, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by Sens. MYRIE, BAILEY, BRISPORT, BROUK, CLEARE, FERNANDEZ,
 GIANARIS, GONZALEZ, HARCKHAM, PARKER, RAMOS, RIVERA, SALAZAR, SEPULVE-
 DA, SERRANO -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be
 committed to the Committee on Codes -- recommitted to the Committee on
 Codes in accordance with Senate Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee
 discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
 to said committee

 AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law and the penal law, in
 relation to granting certain individuals youthful offender status; to
 add a new category of individuals eligible for young adult offender
 status; and to repeal certain provisions of the criminal procedure law
 relating thereto

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Section 720.10 of the criminal procedure law, as added by
 2 chapter 981 of the laws of 1971, subdivision 1 as amended by chapter 411
 3 of the laws of 1979, subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 416 of the laws
 4 of 1986, paragraph (a) of subdivision 2 as amended by chapter 23 of the
 5 laws of 2024, subdivision 3 as amended by chapter 264 of the laws of
 6 2003, and subdivisions 4, 5 and 6 as renumbered by chapter 481 of the
 7 laws of 1978, is amended to read as follows:
 8 § 720.10 Youthful offender procedure; definition of terms.
 9 As used in this article, the following terms have the following mean-
 10 ings:
 11 1. "Youth" means a person charged with a crime alleged to have been
 12 committed when [he was] they were at least sixteen years old and less
 13 than nineteen years old or a person charged with being a juvenile offen-
 14 der as defined in subdivision forty-two of section 1.20 of this chapter.
 15 2. "Eligible youth" means a youth who is eligible to be found a youth-
 16 ful offender. Every youth is so eligible unless:

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD08479-04-6

 S. 4330--A 2

 1 (a) the conviction to be replaced by a youthful offender finding is
 2 for (i) a class A-I or class A-II felony, or (ii) [an armed felony as
 3 defined in subdivision forty-one of section 1.20, except as provided in
 4 subdivision three, or (iii)] rape in the first degree, [a crime formerly
 5 defined in section 130.50 of the penal law, or the crime of aggravated
 6 sexual abuse, except as provided in subdivision three,] criminal sexual
 7 act in the first degree, or aggravated sexual abuse, except as provided
 8 in subdivision three of this section, or
 9 (b) such youth has previously been convicted and sentenced for a felo-
 10 ny[, or
 11 (c) such youth has previously been adjudicated a youthful offender
 12 following conviction of a felony or has been adjudicated on or after
 13 September first, nineteen hundred seventy-eight a juvenile delinquent
 14 who committed a designated felony act as defined in the family court
 15 act].
 16 3. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision two of this section,
 17 a youth who has been convicted of [an armed felony offense or of] rape
 18 in the first degree, criminal sexual act in the first degree, or aggra-
 19 vated sexual abuse