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A00694 Summary:

BILL NOA00694 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORCruz

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COSPNSRColton, Meeks, Levenberg

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MLTSPNSR

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Amd §220.50, CP L

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Requires courts, prior to accepting a plea, to provide notice to the defendant that such plea and the acceptance thereof could result in deportation, removal from the United States, exclusion from the United States or denial of citizenship, if the defendant is not a citizen of the United States.

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01/08/2025referred to codes

01/07/2026referred to codes

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
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 694

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 (Prefiled)

 January 8, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. CRUZ, COLTON -- read once and referred to the
 Committee on Codes

 AN ACT to amend the criminal procedure law, in relation to requiring the
 court, prior to accepting a plea, to advise the defendant of the risk
 of deportation if such defendant is not a citizen

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

 1 Section 1. Subdivision 7 of section 220.50 of the criminal procedure
 2 law, as amended by chapter 738 of the laws of 2004, is amended to read
 3 as follows:
 4 7. (a) Prior to [accepting a defendant's plea of guilty to a count or
 5 counts of an indictment or a superior court information charging a felo-
 6 ny offense, the court must advise the defendant on the record, that if
 7 the defendant is not a citizen of the United States, the defendant's
 8 plea of guilty and the court's acceptance thereof may result in the
 9 defendant's deportation, exclusion from admission to the United States
 10 or denial of naturalization pursuant to the laws of the United States.
 11 Where the plea of guilty is to a count or counts of an indictment charg-
 12 ing a felony offense other than a violent felony offense as defined in
 13 section 70.02 of the penal law or an A-I felony offense other than an
 14 A-I felony as defined in article two hundred twenty of the penal law,
 15 the court must also, prior to accepting such plea, advise the defendant
 16 that, if the defendant is not a citizen of the United States and is or
 17 becomes the subject of a final order of deportation issued by the United
 18 States Immigration and Naturalization Service, the defendant may be
 19 paroled to the custody of the Immigration and Naturalization Service for
 20 deportation purposes at any time subsequent to the commencement of any
 21 indeterminate or determinate prison sentence imposed as a result of the
 22 defendant's plea. The failure to advise the defendant pursuant to this
 23 subdivision shall not be deemed to affect the voluntariness of a plea of

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD01704-01-5

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 1 guilty or the validity of a conviction, nor shall it afford a defendant
 2 any rights in a subsequent proceeding relating to such defendant's
 3 deportation, exclusion or denial of naturalization.] the defendant's
 4 entry of a plea of guilty to any accusatory instrument in any criminal
 5 action, the court shall orally give every defendant on the record the
 6 following notification: "If you are not a citizen of the United States,
 7 you may become deportable, ineligible for naturalization or inadmissible
 8 to the United States based on a conviction by plea or verdict."
 9 (i) The court shall notify every defendant in a language that the
 10 defendant understands without inquiring about the defendant's citizen-
 11 ship or immigration status on the record.
 12 (ii) Only the court shall notify defendants about the possibility of
 13 deportability, ineligibility for naturalization, or inadmissibility to
 14 the United States pursuant to this paragraph. The court and the people
 15 shall not make any other statements about immigration consequences,
 16 including but not limited to statements regarding likely immigration
 17 consequences, condition defendant's guilty plea regardless of immi-
 18 gration consequences, or