New York A 5293: Relates to creating the multi-disciplinary team demonstration program for complex cases of adult abuse, neglect, or financial exploitation

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A05293 Summary:

BILL NOA05293A

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SAME ASSAME AS S04330-A

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SPONSORWalker

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COSPNSRBurroughs, Seawright, Kelles, Cruz, Levenberg, Septimo, Burdick, Gallagher, Simon, Tapia, Forrest,
 Wright, Taylor, Shrestha, Hevesi, Weprin, Carroll R, Valdez, Lavine

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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.

Go to top A05293 Actions:

BILL NOA05293A

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02/12/2025referred to codes

01/07/2026referred to codes

05/21/2026amend and recommit to codes

05/21/2026print number 5293a

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5293--A

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 12, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. WALKER, BURROUGHS, SEAWRIGHT, KELLES, CRUZ,
 LEVENBERG, SEPTIMO, BURDICK, GALLAGHER, SIMON, TAPIA, FORREST, WRIGHT,
 TAYLOR, SHRESTHA, HEVESI, WEPRIN, R. CARROLL -- read once and referred
 to the Committee on Codes -- recommitted to the Committee on Codes in
 accordance with Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged, bill
 amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted to said commit-
 tee

 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.
 LBD08479-05-6

 A. 5293--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-